Areas of expertise
Applied demography , Families , Microsimulation , Quantitative methods in social science
- Assistant professor
E-mail
david.pelletier@inrs.ca
Ruralités durables Research Centre
63 Ambroise-Fafard Street
Suite 2116-2117
Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec G3Z 2K1
Research interests
My research focuses on two main areas. First, I aim to anticipate future changes in rural populations and to better understand their causes and consequences. Demographic simulations—projections and reconstructions—are the primary tools for this work.
I am also interested in analyzing the family trajectories of adults and children. Here, survival and sequence analysis techniques make it possible to describe and contextualize, for example, the dynamics of shared custody arrangements or couple relationships.
Function
- 2026- Assistant professor, Centre Ruralités durables, INRS
- 2021-2026 Demographer, Statistics Canada
- 2022-2026 Lecturer, INRS
- 2013-2024 Lecturer, Université de Montréal
- 2018-2024 Invited researcher, Université de Montréal
- 2019-2020 Postdoctoral researcher in sociology, McGill University
- 2016-2020 Postdoctoral researcher in demography, Centre UCS, INRS
Training
- Ph.D. in demography, Université de Montréal
- M.A. in demography, Université de Montréal
Future students
Students with interests in the following areas are invited to contact me:
- Demography of rural groups;
- Fertility and mortality in rural areas;
- International immigration and internal migration to rural areas;
- Demographic projections;
- Reconstruction of past populations;
- Family trajectories of adults and children;
- Life courses;
- Microsimulation;
- Survival analysis;
- Sequence analysis;
- And other advanced quantitative analysis techniques.
Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, INRS
- POP6202 : Fondements de l’analyse démographique;
- POP6301 : Fondements de l’analyse démographique 2.
Demography department, Université de Montréal
- Various courses on demographic analysis;
- Introduction to demography.