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This article describes an explosion in the availability of individual-level population data. By 2018, demographic researchers will have access to over 2 billion records of accessible microdata from over 100 countries, dating from 1703 to the present. Another 2 to 4 billion records will be available through restricted-access data enclaves. These new resources represent a new kind of data that wi...

In this short retrospective study, the author gives account of some aspects and the main results of human population genetical studies in Hungary. In the foreground of his interest is research taking as its basis the population as a genetic unit, which demonstrates the genetic structures of the populations, the geographic (and other) mechanisms of isolation, migration, the variability of geneti...

WHAT DID WE DO?: This paper describes the creation of a population research registry as part of an information system to support primary healthcare (PHC) research in British Columbia. The population registry includes all residents of the province who were either eligible to use or actually used healthcare services, together with demographic, geographic, health status, registration and service u...