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Demography Skills
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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at Demography — the flagship journal of the Population Association of America (PAA), founded in 1964 and published by Duke University Press since 2021. Demography is fully open to readers under a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model and publishes the highest-quality research in population science: how populations change, and the causes and consequences of fertility, mortality, and migration — drawing on anthropology, biology, economics, epidemiology, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic social-science writing toolbox and it is not an economics or sociology pack repurposed for population studies. It is a Demography-specific stack: a genuine population-change question of general interest to demographers, an argument that speaks across components (a mortality scholar should care about your fertility paper), a design defended on demographic terms (the right life table, decomposition, event-history, or age-period-cohort method), double-blind preparation, and a data availability statement with reproducible code deposited in a FAIR repository.
What Is Demography, and Why a Dedicated Stack?
Demography's constraints differ from a general social-science or methods journal:
| Constraint | Demography | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Population science — how populations change; fertility, mortality, migration | The paper must ask a real population question, not just use the data |
| Premium on | General interest to demographers + a clear contribution | A narrow applied result using demographic data is off-fit |
| Methods | Life tables, decomposition, event history, APC, multistate, microsimulation, projections, causal — judged on own terms | Pick the demographic method that answers the question |
| Publisher / owner | Duke University Press (since 2021) / PAA | Submitted via ScholarOne, not Editorial Manager (moved 2024) |
| Review model | Double-blind | Avoid self-identifying references; reviewers and authors anonymous |
| Access model | Subscribe to Open (S2O) — free to read; not an APC journal | The $1,000 fee is not an open-access charge |
| Fees | $35 submission + $1,000 editorial-management at acceptance (both waivable) | Budget the $35; the $1,000 is post-acceptance and waivable |
| Length | Article <= 8,000 words; Note <= 4,000; Commentary <= 2,000; abstract <= 200 | Main-text counts exclude abstract/keywords/footnotes/refs |
| Front matter | 3-5 highlights (<= 85 chars each); <= 5 keywords; loosely APA style | Highlights and keywords are required, formatted to spec |
| Transparency | Data availability statement + persistent IDs; reproducible code encouraged | Demography hosts no repository — you deposit in a FAIR one |
Volatile specifics (editor and term, exact caps, fee amounts/waivers, which volume is open this year, policy wording) change — items not directly confirmed are marked 待核实 in resources/official-source-map.md. Verify on the official journal page.
Three article types
- Research Article — full original population study; <= 8,000 words main text.
- Research Note — one crisp, self-contained contribution; <= 4,000 words.
- Commentary — short response or invited perspective; <= 2,000 words.
Quick Start
Option A — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills
/plugin install demog-skills
/reload-pluginsOption B — Manual Copy
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills.git
cd awesome-journal-skills/Demography-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/demog-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/demog-* ~/.codex/skills/First Prompt
Use demog-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my Demography manuscript.Default Workflow
demog-topic-selection
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demog-literature-positioning
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demog-theory-building
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demog-research-design
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demog-data-analysis
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demog-tables-figures
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demog-writing-style (polish)
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demog-data-and-reproducibility
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demog-review-process
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demog-submission
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demog-rebuttaldemog-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are. Most demographic papers loop theory ↔ design ↔ analysis several times while choosing among life-table, decomposition, event-history, or age-period-cohort framings before moving on to writing and the data availability statement.
Skills
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
demog-workflow | Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next |
demog-topic-selection | Population-question fit and general interest; pick the right article type |
demog-literature-positioning | Speak across components; engage the demographic literatures readers expect |
demog-theory-building | Build the mechanism, identity, or sharpened estimate into a contribution |
demog-research-design | Choose and defend the demographic method (life table, decomposition, EHA, APC) |
demog-data-analysis | Rate/exposure construction, uncertainty, decomposition, APC, survival rigor |
demog-tables-figures | Population pyramids, Lexis surfaces, survival curves, age schedules |
demog-writing-style | House style (loosely APA); abstract, highlights, keywords; word/exhibit limits |
demog-data-and-reproducibility | Data availability statement, FAIR-repository deposit, reproducible code |
demog-review-process | Double-blind review, pre-review/desk screening, topic-area Deputy Editors |
demog-submission | ScholarOne preflight (anonymization, limits, highlights, $35 fee) |
demog-rebuttal | R&R response-letter strategy for expert reviewers + the synthesizing editor |
Resources
resources/external_tools.md— population data sources (HMD / HFD / IPUMS / DHS / HRS / WPP) + R / Stata / Python demographic packages (life tables, decomposition, survival, APC, microsimulation)resources/official-source-map.md— official PAA / Duke URLs behind every fact, with 待核实 markers on unverified items
What This Repo Does Not Do
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or reviewer's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (current editor and term, exact caps, fee amounts/waivers, which volume is open this year, policy wording) — verify on the official page; unverified items are marked 待核实
- It does not decide whether your question is of general interest to demographers — that is the researcher's call
- It does not treat the $1,000 editorial-management fee as an open-access charge — Demography is free to read under S2O
Related
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- Demography on Duke University Press — publisher home, current issues
- Demography at PAA — owner, author guidelines, policies
- Demography Open-Access (Subscribe to Open) FAQ-about-demography) — the S2O funding model
License
MIT