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Dr Tom Wilson

Dr Tom Wilson

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Geography, University of Leeds

MA Human Geography, University of Sussex

PhD Geography, University of Leeds

Main role: Senior Research Fellow
Phone: +61 8 8946 7202
Fax: +61 8 8946 7175
Email: tom.wilson@cdu.edu.au
Address: School for Social and Policy Research
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia

Research Interests

Population projection and estimation methods; internal migration; regional and local population change; indirect estimation methods.

Recent Publications

  • Wilson T (2008) A multistate model for projecting regional populations by Indigenous status: an application to the Northern Territory, Australia. Forthcoming in Environment and Planning A.

  • Wilson T (2007) The forecast accuracy of Australian Bureau of Statistics national population projections. Journal of Population Research 24.1: 1-27.

  • Wilson, T. Condon, J.R. & Barnes, T. (2007) Improvements in Northern Territory Indigenous Life Expectancy, 1967-2004, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 31(2): 184-188.
  • Wilson, T. and Bell, M. (2007), Probabilistic regional population forecasts: the example of Queensland, Australia. Geographical Analysis, 39(1): 1-25.
  • Wilson, T Condon J. (2006), ' Indigenous Population Change in the Northern Territory', People and Place, 14 (4): 65-78
  • Wilson, T. (2005), The application of a probabilistic framework to New Zealand’s official national population projections. New Zealand Population Review, 31(1): 51-75.
  • Wilson, T. and Rees, P. (2005) Recent developments in population projection methodology: a review. Population, Space and Place 11.5: 337-360.
  • Wilson, T. (2005) New United Nations World population projections. People and Place 13.1: 14-22.
  • Wilson, T. (2005) Queensland State and regional household projections 2001-26: method and results. Research note, Queensland Centre for Population Research, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
  • Wilson, T. and Bell, M. (2004) Comparative empirical evaluations of internal migration models in subnational population projections. Journal of Population Research 21.2: 127-160.
  • Wilson, T. and Bell, M. (2004) Australia’s uncertain demographic future. Demographic Research 11-8. http://www.demographic-research.org.
  • Wilson, T., Bell, M., Heyen, G. and Taylor, A. (2004) New population projections for Queensland and statistical divisions. People and Place 12.1: 1-14.
  • Wilson, T. and Rees, P. (2003) Why Scotland needs more than just a new migration policy. Scottish Geographical Journal 119.3: 191-208.
  • Wilson, T. (2003) Book review of Macunovich, D. (2002) Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and its Aftershocks. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. International Journal of Social Economics 30.7/8: 924-926.
  • Ní Bhrolcháin, M., Wilson, T. and Sigle-Rushton, W. (2002) Local marriage markets in Great Britain: how diverse? Population Trends 109: 27-35.
  • Wilson, T. (2002) Book review of Smith, S.K., Tayman, J. and Swanson, D.A. (2001) State and Local Population Projections: Methodology and Analysis. New York: Kluwer Press. In European Journal of Population 18.3: 304-305.
  • Wilson, T., Hollis, J. and Rees, P. (2002) Providing a population projection framework. Appendix 8 in Universities of Newcastle and Leeds and the Greater London Authority (2002) Development of a Migration Model. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; 239-249.
  • Harris, J., Dorling, D., Owen, D. Coombes, M. and Wilson, T. (2002) Lookup tables and new area statistics for the 1971, 1981 and 1991 Censuses. Chapter 5 in Rees, P., Martin, D. and Williamson, P. (eds) The Census Data System. Chichester: John Wiley; 67-82.
  • Wilson, T. and Rees, P. (2001) A new subnational population projection model for the United Kingdom. Paper prepared for the European Population Conference, Helsinki, 7-9 June 2001.
  • Wilson, T. (2000) Book review of de Gans, H. (1999) Population Forecasting 1895-1945: The Transition to Modernity. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. In International Journal of Population Geography 6: 466-468.
  • Wilson, T. and Rees, P. (1999) Linking 1991 population statistics to the 1998 local government geography of Great Britain. Population Trends 97: 37-45.
  • Rees, P., Kupiszewski, M., Eyre, H. Wilson, T., Durham, H. (1999) The evaluation of regional population projections for the European Union. Final Report, ERDF Study 97/00/74/018.
  • Wilson, T. and Stillwell, J. (1998) Population estimates for Yorkshire and the Humber’s new local authority areas. The Regional Review 8: 17-19.

Current Projects

  • Population mobility in the Nothern Territory (ARC linkage grant)
  • Population projections for the Northern Territory and its regions (NT Treasury funded)
  • The structure of internal migration in Australia (ARC Discovery project with Professor Martin Bell of UQ)
  • The relationship between migration and the labour force in Australia (ARC Learned Academies Special Project grant)

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