Tom A Moultrie

Professor of Demography, Centre For Actuarial Research (CARe)
University of Cape Town

tom.moultrie@uct.ac.za

Field of Study: Demography
 
Specialization: Estimates and Projections, Fertility, Mathematical Demography
 
Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Demography, 2002
 
Working languages: English
Afrikaans
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)
 
Curriculum Vitae:
 
Professional Summary:

I am a South African born and bred demographer, trained at the LSHTM, and returned to take up a post at the University of Cape Town in 2002. My interests lie primarily in the fields of demographic estimation (I was PI on the project to update UN Manual X, now available at demographicestimation.iussp.org); fertility transition; and the interface between sociology, race and demography.

 

I have presented papers at each of the last four IUSSP General Population Conferences (2001; 2005; 2009; 2013); attended and presented papers at IUSSP seminars related to my areas of academic interest; acted as a rapporteur for an IUSSP meeting on demographic training in the developing world in Amsterdam 2009

 

Publications:

Moultrie TA, RE Dorrington, AG Hill, KH Hill, IM Timæus and B Zaba. 2013. Tools for Demographic Estimation. Paris: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. demographicestimation.iussp.org

Moultrie TA, TS Sayi and IM Timæus. 2012. "Birth intervals, postponement, and fertility decline in Africa: A new type of transition?", Population Studies 66(3):241-258. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2012.701660

 

Timæus IM and TA Moultrie. 2008. "On postponement and birth intervals", Population and Development Review 34(3):483-510. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00233.x

 

Moultrie TA. 2005. "Racism and reproduction – Population rhetoric in South Africa, 1900-1974", African Studies 64(2):217-242. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020180500355710

 

Moultrie TA and RE Dorrington. 2012. "Used for ill; used for good: a century of collecting data on race in South Africa", Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(8):1447-1465. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.607502

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Editor, Population Studies (2012-)

Member: Scientific Review Board, Demographic Research (2010-)

Past Editor: Southern African Journal of Demography (2004-2009)

IUSSP Council Member for Africa, 2014-2017

International Advisory Board, LSHTM-UNFPA-IUSSP project on Distance Learning in Demography (2011-)
Research grants:
UNFPA-IUSSP Project on Demographic Estimation - PI

Various grants from INDEPTH Network; UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC); South African National Research Foundation; Hewlett Foundation