This Collaborative Paper deals with the population development of Southwest Skane and the rest of Sweden from the 1960s up until the turn of the century. A new type of projection model, developed at IIASA, is hereby used. This population model is one in the set mentioned above and has previously been tested on limited data from Sweden and other countries (see Andersson and Holmberg: Migration and Settlement. 3: Sweden, RR-80-5, IIASA) .
The current application is more extensive. Ingvar Holmberg of the Demographic Research Group at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is responsible for the adaptation of the model to Swedish conditions and for the numerical computations. The results have been evaluated by Ake Andersson, Ingvar Holmberg, Joergen Schultz, and Folke Snickars, all of whom have contributed to this policy-oriented report.
Hopefully this work will further stimulate the continued discussion about regional population development in Sweden and elsewhere
