Country where institution is located: Poland

Language(s) of instruction: Polish

(1) Name of parent organization, unit and/or university:

Warsaw School of Economics

(2) Name of demographic teaching unit, faculty or department when that differs from (1) above:

Institute of Statistics and Demography

(3) Certificates/Diplomas/Degrees awarded:

M.Sc., Ph.D. in statistics and demography

(4) Current course offerings in demography and related subjects:

Principles and methods of demographic analyses; fertility, family and household; population dynamics; population projections; demographic modelling; population aging; applied statistics; socio-economic statistics; and lectures and seminars in other population related topics (labour market, household welfare, regional aspects of population change)

(5) Current (or planned) recurrent short-term courses (i.e. approximately two weeks to three-six months) offered:

None

(6) Number of teaching staff, full- and part-time:

Full-Time Part-Time

8 professors

12 senior lecturers

5 assistants

The institute does not employ full-time research workers; the main tasks of persons employed is teaching and research without fixed working-time division between these two activities

(7) Number of students completing each programme annually:

5 - 10

(8) Yearly number of students enrolled in each programme:

5 - 15

(9) Admission requirements for programme(s):

For Ph.D. courses master's degree in demography, statistics, and economics is basically recognised

(10) Postal address, telephone number, fax number and/or E-mail address (if and as available), of the demographic teaching unit/programme:

Address: Warsaw School of Economics
Institute of Statistics and Demography
02-554 Warsaw, Al.Niepodlegeoyci 162
Poland

Tel.: 48-22-495397

Fax: 48-22-495312

E-mail Address: jzhol@sgh.waw.pl

Our Institute has a study programme "Socio-Demographic Problems of Economic Development" (SOCDEM), prepared under Tempus JEP 4532. The SOCDEM specialization is basically offered to students who completed the three-semester introductory programme and will gain their M.Sc. degree in Economics within the seven-semester Graduate School. The certificate in the SOCDEM specialization will be additional to regular master's diploma which can be awarded in seven field of study at the Warsaw School of Economics: Finance and Banking, Public Sector Economics, International Economic and Political Relations, Business Administration, Management and Marketing, Economics, Quantitative Methods and Information Systems. Within the SOCDEM specialization five profiles are proposed: Demography, Labour Market, Social Statistics, Social Policy, Ecology.

Financial aid available to students:

The Warsaw School of Economics does not offer any financial aid.

Name of Department/Unit Head:

Professor Jerzy Z. Holzer is the director of the Institute. The Institute consists of two units:

Unit of Applied Statistics, headed by Professor Tomasz Panek, and Unit of Demography, headed by Professor Irena E. Kotowska.

List of Faculty members, including their highest academic qualifications:

Persons who are charge on population matters: Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Z. Holzer, Prof. dr hab. Janina JóYwiak, Prof. dr hab. Irena E. Kotowska, dr Ewa Frtczak, dr Anna Kowalska, dr Irena Kowalska, dr Krystyna Iglicka- Okólska, dr. Wiktoria Wróblewska, dr Franciszek Stokowski, mgr Magorzata Podogrodzka, mgr Katarzyna Kocot-Górecka, mgr Barbara Sakson.

Persons working in the Unit of Applied Statistics: Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Panek, Prof. dr hab. Jan Kordos, Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Luszniewicz, Prof. dr hab. Magorzata Rószkiewicz, Prof. dr hab. Teresa Saby, dr Ilona Baszczak-Przybyciñska, dr Helena Kassyk-Rokicka, dr Irena Kasperowicz-Ruka, dr Jarosaw Podgórski, dr Adam Szulc, mgr Jan Barszczewski, mgr Stanisaw Kluza, mgr Jolanta Perek.

Number of students enrolled annually (most recent year) in each degree programme:

Eight persons are preparing their Ph.D. Thesis in demography and population related topics (labour market, household welfare) and two persons in Social Statistics; three persons are enrolled in the SOCDEM programme.

Detail of enrolment prerequisites:

For the Ph.D. programme the M.Sc. degree is required, preferably in social and economic sciences (economics, sociology, etc.). For the SOCDEM specialization the three-semester introductory programme at the Warsaw School of Economics or the equivalent courses in other universities are required.

Duration of regular programme(s) of study, and which courses offered. (Outline of course for each degree):

While the Ph.D. programme lasts three years, the SOCDEM specialization is more flexible in time requirements - it could be arranged as the four-semester course.

The Demography Profile in the SOCDEM specialization consists of two courses:

within the obligatory course lectures in Demography, Social Statistics, Social Policy, Labour Economics, Social Survey Designs and Statistical Methods in Social Research are delivered; the optional course includes lectures and seminars in: Demographic Analysis and Forecasting, Demographic Modelling, Stochastic Processes, Event History Analysis in Demography, Socio-economic Consequences of Population Dynamics, Economic Growth and Human Resources, Public Sector and Population Problems, Family and Household Demography, Household Welfare, Health and Mortality, Population Economics, Spatial Aspects of Population Development, Ecological Aspects of Population Development, Demographic Transition. Students are obliged to choose relevant lectures according to their specialization.

Provision for foreign student enrolment:

There is no provision for foreign student enrolment.