Dilek Yildiz
Research Scholar
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Dilek Yildiz joined the World Population (POP) Program as a research scholar in July 2017. She completed her PhD on 'Combining administrative data sources to estimate population counts' at the University of Southampton, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, in 2016. Previously, she worked as a teaching assistant and as a researcher at the University of Southampton. She also worked at various stages of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey-2008, and as a research assistant at Hacettepe University, where she also completed her MSc in Economic and Social Demography. Her current research interests are in statistical demography with a focus on Bayesian projections/reconstruction of multistate populations, population count estimates, and investigating on the use of big data sources. Dr. Yildiz has also been working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography since February 2016.Last update: 15 JAN 2018
Publications
Yildiz, D. & Abel, G. (2021). Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability. In: Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology. pp. 29-41 Elgar. ISBN 978 1 83910 060 4 10.4337/9781839100611.00011.
Yildiz, D. , Arslan, H., & Çavlin, A. (2021). Understanding women’s well-being in Turkey. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021. pp. 1-19 Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-8707-3 10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res2.3.
Lutz, W. , Striessnig, E. , Dimitrova, A., Ghislandi, S., Lijadi, A., Reiter, C. , Spitzer, S. , & Yildiz, D. (2021). Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to serve research on sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (12) e1907351118. 10.1073/pnas.1907351118.
K.C., S., Lutz, W. , Potančoková, M. , Abel, G. , Barakat, B., Eder, J., Goujon, A. , Jurasszovich, S., Reiter, C. , Sobotka, T., Speringer, M., Striessnig, E. , Wurzer, M., Yildiz, D. , Yoo, S.H., & Zeman, K. (2020). Global population and human capital projections for Shared Socioeconomic Pathways – 2015 to 2100, Revision-2018.