Kryštof Zeman

academy scientist

Vienna Institute of Demography

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Dominikanerbastei 16

1010 Vienna

Austria

e-mail: krystof.zeman@oeaw.ac.at
ORCID: 0000-0002-1067-037X
born in 1974 in Prague
married, two daughters

CAREER

1993–1996: Faculty of Social Affairs, Charles University, Prague

• BA of Economy in September 1996

1993–2004: Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague

• 1998: study stay at University of Amsterdam

• 2000–2003: International Max Planck Research School for Demography, Rostock

• BA of Demography in June 1996

• MA of Demography in June 1998

• First Certificate in English in June 2002

• PhD in February 2004

2004–2008: Czech Statistical Office, Prague

• employed as demographer

• 2006: visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock (4 months)

• 2007–2008: Head of Demographic Statistics Section

2013: Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Department of Socioeconomics, Demography Section (research scholar)

2021: University of Vienna, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Demography (scientific project staff)

2008+: Vienna Institute of Demography (academy scientist)

Ongoing projects and databases

• Human Fertility Database www.humanfertility.org

• Human Fertility Collection www.fertilitydata.org

• Birth Barometer www.birthbarometer.at

• European Demographic Datasheet www.populationeurope.org

• European Fertility Datasheet www.fertilitydatasheet.org

Membership

• Czech Demographic Society

• European Association for Population Studies

• Subject area board of Demography at the Charles University in Prague

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed articles

• Tomáš Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman and Vladimíra Kantorová. 2003. Demographic shifts in the Czech Republic after 1989: A second demographic transition view. European Journal of Population 19(3): 249–277. 

• Kryštof Zeman. 2007. Population development in the Czech Republic in 2005. Czech Demography 1: 3–15. 

• Tomáš Sobotka, Anna Šťastná, Kryštof Zeman, Dana Hamplová and Vladimíra Kantorová. 2008. Czech Republic: A rapid transformation of fertility and family behaviour after the collapse of state socialism. In: T. Frejka, J. Hoem, T. Sobotka and L. Toulemon (Eds.). Special Collection 7: Childbearing Trends and Policies in Europe. Demographic Research 19(14): 403–454. online

• Kryštof Zeman. 2009. The link between women’s education and non-marital childbearing in the Czech Republic. Romanian Journal of Population Studies 1: 90–108.

• Michaela Kreyenfeld, Kryštof Zeman, Marion Burkimsher and Ina Jaschinski. 2012. Fertility data for German-speaking countries. What is the potential? Where are the pitfalls? Comparative Population Studies 36(2–3): 349–380. online

• Tomáš Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman, Ron Lesthaeghe and Tomas Frejka. 2012. Postponement and recuperation in cohort fertility: Austria, Germany and Switzerland in a European context. Comparative Population Studies 36(2–3): 417–452. online

• Aiva Jasilioniene, Tomas Sobotka, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Krystof Zeman, Dora Kostova, Evgeny M. Andreev, Pavel Grigoriev, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov. 2016. Data resource profile: The Human Fertility Database. International Journal of Epidemiology 45(4): 1077–1078e. online

• Éva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska and Kryštof Zeman. 2016. The limited effect of increasing educational attainment on childlessness trends in twentieth-century Europe, women born 1916–65. Population Studies 70(3): 275–291. online

• Kryštof Zeman, Éva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska and Tomáš Sobotka. 2018. Cohort fertility decline in low fertility countries: Decomposition using parity progression ratios. Demographic Research 38(25): 651–690. online

• Kryštof Zeman. 2018. Cohort fertility and educational expansion in the Czech Republic during the 20th century. Demographic Research 38(56): 1699–1732. online

• Everton E.C. Lima, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz and Krystof Zeman. 2018. Completeness of birth registration in Brazil: an overview of methods and data sources. Genus 74(11): 1–20. online

• Everton E.C. Lima, Kryštof Zeman, Tomáš Sobotka, Mathias Nathan and Ruben Castro. 2018. The emergence of bimodal fertility profiles in Latin America. Population and Development Review 44(4): 723–743. online first

• Jan Van Bavel, Martin Klesment, Eva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Allan Puur, David Reher, Miguel Requena, Glenn Sandström, Tomáš Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman. 2018. Seeding the gender revolution: Women’s education and cohort fertility among the baby boom generations. Population Studies 72(3): 283–304. online

• Krzysztof Tymicki, Kryštof Zeman and Dorota Holzer-Żelażewska. 2018. Cohort fertility of Polish women, 1945–2015: the context of postponement and recuperation. Studia Demograficzne 174(2): 5–23. online

• Kryštof Zeman. 2019. Fertility assumptions in the population projection of the Czech Republic of Czech Statistical Office 2018–2100. Demografie 61(4): 249–260. online

• Ivan Čipin, Kryštof Zeman and Petra Međimurec. 2020. Cohort Fertility, Parity Progression, and Family Size in Former Yugoslav Countries. Comparative Population Studies 45: 1–20. online

• Kryštof Zeman and Tomáš Sobotka. 2020. Selected Wittgenstein Centre databases on fertility across time and space. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 18: 267–284. online

• Zuzanna Brzozowska, Éva Beaujouan and Kryštof Zeman. 2022. Is two still best? Change in parity-specific fertility across education in low-fertility countries. Population Research and Policy Review 41: 2085–2114. online

• Éva Beaujouan, Kryštof Zeman and Mathías Nathan. 2023. Delayed first births and completed fertility across the 1940–1969 birth cohorts. Demographic Research 48(15): 387–420. online

• Tomáš Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman, Aiva Jasilioniene, Maria Winkler-Dworak, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Ainhoa Alustiza-Galarza, László Németh and Dmitri Jdanov. 2023. Pandemic roller-coaster? Birth trends in higher-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Population and Development Review 50(S1): 23-58. online

• Misun Lee and Kryštof Zeman. 2024. Childlessness in Korea: Role of education, marriage postponement, and marital childlessness. Demographic Research 51(21): 669–686. online

• Maria Winkler-Dworak, Kryštof Zeman and Tomáš Sobotka. 2024. Birth rate decline in the later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of policy interventions, vaccination programmes, and economic uncertainty. Human Reproduction Open 2024(3): 1-13. online

• Kryštof Zeman. 2024. The fertility assumptions for the population projection of the Czech Republic of the Czech Statistical Office from 2023. Demografie 66(4): 249–260. online

Book chapters

• Maria Bulgaru, Oleg Bulgaru, Tomáš Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman. 2000. Past and present population development in the Republic of Moldova. In: Tomáš Kučera et al. (Eds.) New Demographic Faces of Europe. Springer Verlag: Heidelberg: 221–246. 

• Stuart Basten, Tomáš Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman. 2014. Future fertility in low fertility countries. In: W. Lutz, W. Butz and S. KC (Eds.) World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press: 39–146.

• Marion Burkimsher and Kryštof Zeman. 2017. Childlessness in Switzerland and Austria. In: Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka (Eds.) Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences. Springer Link: 115–137. online

• Isabella Buber-Ennser, Bernhard Rengs, Judith Kohlenberger and Kryštof Zeman. 2020. Demographic profile of Syrians in Austria. In: E.D. Carlson and N.E. Williams (Eds.). Comparative Demography of the Syrian Diaspora: European and Middle Eastern Destinations. Cham: Springer: 139–162. online

• Norbert Neuwirth (Ed.). 2021. 6. Österreichischer Familienbericht 2009–2019. Bundeskanzleramt / Frauen, Familie, Jugend und Integration (BKA / FFJI), Wien. online

• Norbert Neuwirth, Isabella Buber-Ennser and Beat Fux (Eds.). 2023. Families in Austria. GGP Generations and Gender Programme, Austrian Institute for Family Sudies, Vienna.

Thesis

• Kryštof Zeman. 1996. Změny migračních toků v 90. letech v regionálním pohledu. [Changes in migration flows in the Czech Republic during the 1990s by regions]. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University: Prague (B.A. thesis).

• Kryštof Zeman. 1998. Populační politika v Rumunsku a její dopad na reprodukční chování 1966–1989. [Population policy in Romania and its impact on reproductive behaviour 1966–1989]. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University: Prague (M.A. thesis). 

• Kryštof Zeman. 2003. Divorce and Marital Dissolution in the Czech Republic and in Austria – The Role of Premarital Cohabitation. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University: Prague (Ph.D. thesis). 

Datasheets

• Tomáš Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman, Michaela Potančoková, Jakob Eder, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Éva Beaujouan, Anna Matysiak. 2015. European Fertility Datasheet 2015. Vienna Institute of Demography / Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. online

• Kryštof Zeman, Tomáš Sobotka, Richard Gisser and Maria Winkler-Dworak. 2019. Birth Barometer: Monitoring fertility in Austria. Vienna Institute of Demography. online

• Kryštof Zeman et al. 2024. European Demographic Datasheet 2024. Vienna Institute of Demography / Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. online

Working papers

• Kryštof Zeman. 2002. Marital disruption in the Czech Republic: The role of personal characteristics, individuality, and premarital cohabitation. MPIDR Working Paper WP–2002–047. MPIDR: Rostock. download

• Kryštof Zeman. 2007. Transition of nuptiality and fertility onset in the Czech Republic since the 1990s: the role of women’s education and its expansion. MPIDR Working Paper WP–2007–017. MPIDR: Rostock. download

• Tomáš Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman, Ron Lesthaeghe and Tomas Frejka. 2011. Postponement and recuperation in cohort fertility: New analytical and projection methods and their application. European Demographic Research Papers 2/2011. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

• Michaela Kreyenfeld, Kryštof Zeman, Marion Burkimsher and Ina Jaschinski. 2011. Fertility data for German speaking countries. What is the potential? Where are the pitfalls? MPIDR Working Paper WP–2011–003. MPIDR: Rostock. download

• Kryštof Zeman, Tomáš Sobotka, Richard Gisser, Maria Winkler-Dworak and Wolfgang Lutz. 2011. Geburtenbarometer Vienna: Analysing fertility convergence between Vienna and Austria. VID Working Paper 07/2011. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

• Stuart Basten, Tomáš Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman. 2013. Future fertility in low fertility countries. VID Working Paper 05/2013. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

• Kryštof Zeman, Éva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska and Tomáš Sobotka. 2017. Cohort fertility decline in low fertility countries: decomposition using parity progression ratios. VID Working Paper 03/2017 and HFD RR–2017–003. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

• Everton E.C. Lima, Kryštof Zeman, Mathias Nathan, Ruben Castro and Tomáš Sobotka. 2017. Twin peaks: The emergence of bimodal fertility profiles in Latin America. VID Working Paper 10/2017 and HFD RR–2017–004. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

• Zuzanna Brzozowska, Éva Beaujouan and Kryštof Zeman. 2017. Why has the share of two-child families stopped growing? Trends in education-specific parity distribution in low-fertility countries. VID Working Paper 14/2017. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

Other publications

• Kryštof Zeman. 1998. Provo movement and it's influence on the City of Amsterdam. Universiteit van Amsterdam (essay). 

• Kryštof Zeman: Fertility development in the Czech Republic after 1989 (compared with the situation in Poland and Slovakia). Acta Geographica Supplementum No 2/II, Universitas Comeniana, Bratislava, 1999, pp. 91–99.

• Tomáš Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman. 1999. Natality. In: Population Development in the Czech Republic 1999. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University: Prague: 27–33.

• Kryštof Zeman. 2003. Divorce. In: Population Development in the Czech Republic 1990–2002. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University in Prague: 35–40. download

• Aiva Jasilioniene, Dmitri Jdanov, Tomáš Sobotka, Evgeny Andreev, Kryštof Zeman, Vladimir Shkolnikov, Joshua Goldstein, Dimiter Philipov and Germán Rodrígues. 2009. Methods protocol for the Human Fertility Database. MPIDR: Rostock. download

• Edward Nash, Aiva Jasilioniene, Evgeny Andreev, Kryštof Zeman. 2011. A collection of "R" packages for the production of period fertility tables and some summary fertility indicators. MPIDR Technical Report TR–2011–001. MPIDR: Rostock. download

• Kryštof Zeman, Tomáš Sobotka, Richard Gisser and Maria Winkler-Dworak. 2015. Geburtenbarometer Ergebnis 2014. Vienna Institute of Demography. download

• Kryštof Zeman, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Tomáš Sobotka, Éva Beaujouan, Anna Matysiak. 2017. Cohort Fertility and Education Database. Methods Protocol. online

• Wolfgang Lutz, Tomáš Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman. 2024. Evaluating pronatalist policies with TFR brings misleading conclusions: examples from Hungary. nIUSSP. online

Publications in Czech language

• Kryštof Zeman. 2000. Vliv protipotratového zákonodárství na reprodukční chování rumunské populace v letech 1966–1989. [Influence of anti-abortion legislation on reproductive behaviour of Romanian population in 1966–1989]. Demografie 42(2): 105–113.

• Kryštof Zeman. 2001. Potratovost. [Abortions]. In: Populační vývoj České republiky 2000. [Population Development in the Czech Republic 2000]. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University: Prague: 39–45.

• Kryštof Zeman. 2002. Rozvodovost. [Divorce]. In: Populační vývoj České republiky 2001. [Population Development in the Czech Republic 2001]. Department of Demography and Geodemography: Faculty of Science: Charles University: Prague: 29–34. download

• Kryštof Zeman. 2006. Věk při sňatku a rozdíl mezi věkem ženicha a věkem nevěsty v České republice v letech 1991–2004. [Age at marriage and age difference between the age of groom and age of bride in the Czech Republic in 1991–2004]. Demografie 48(1): 1–11. 

• Kryštof Zeman. 2006. Vývoj obyvatelstva České republiky v roce 2005. [Population development in the Czech Republic in 2005]. Demografie 48(3): 153–165. 

• Kryštof Zeman. 2006. Úmrtnostní tabulky podle nejvyššího ukončeného vzdělání, Česká republika, 2001. [Mortality tables according to the highest attained level of education, Czech Republic, 2001]. Demografie 48(3): 207–217. 

• Kryštof Zeman. 2006. Mimomanželská plodnost – demografická analýza. [Out-of-marriage fertility - demographic analysis]. In.: Dana Hamplová (ed.). Mimomanželská plodnost v České republice po roce 1989: sociální a ekonomické souvislosti. [Non-Marital Fertility in the Czech Republic after 1989: The Social and Economic Context]. SOÚ AV ČR, Praha: 14–25.

• Kryštof Zeman. 2007. Populační vývoj v České republice - minulost, součastnost a výhledy do budoucna. [Population development in the Czech Republic - past, recent and future prospects]. Právo a rodina 11: 4–7.

• Kryštof Zeman. 2007. Nemanželská plodnost – demografický přehled. [Nonmarital fertility - demographic overview]. In.: Dana Hamplová (ed.). Děti na psí knížku? Mimomanželská plodnost v ČR. [Children of cohabitation? Nonmarital fertility in CR]. SOÚ AV ČR, Praha: 17–28.

• Czech Statistical Office. 2018. Projekce obyvatelstva České republiky 2018-2100. [Population projection of the Czech Republic 2018-2100]. Czech Statistical Office. online

• Czech Statistical Office. 2023. Projekce obyvatelstva České republiky 2023-2100. [Population projection of the Czech Republic 2023-2100]. Czech Statistical Office. online

• Czech Statistical Office. 2024. Projekce obyvatelstva v krajích ČR - do roku 2080. [Population projection of the Czech Republic regions until 2080]. Czech Statistical Office. online

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