Software

I contribute to the development and maintenance of open-source software for demographic and kinship analysis. These tools support reproducible research and teaching in formal and computational demography.

rsocsim

rsocsim is an R interface to SOCSIM, an open-source stochastic demographic microsimulation platform. It allows researchers to run SOCSIM simulations from within R to generate synthetic populations with plausible kinship structures from demographic rate schedules (e.g., fertility, mortality, marriage). The framework has been used to study kin availability, generational overlap, and kin loss under different demographic regimes.

Documentation: mpidr.github.io/rsocsim
Source code: github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim

DemoKin

DemoKin is an R package for matrix-based demographic analysis of kinship networks. It estimates kin counts and age distributions for many relative types and supports one-sex and two-sex models, including time-varying and multistate specifications. The package is designed for population-level kinship modeling under explicit demographic assumptions.

Documentation: ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin
Source code: github.com/IvanWilli/DemoKin