Bernard Baffour

Bernard Baffour is a lecturer at the School of Demography at the Australian National University. Previously he worked at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland in Australia. He completed his PhD in social statistics from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, where he investigated the statistical properties of triple system capture-recapture estimators in population censuses, and subsequently undertook a post-doctoral fellowship in the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) examining the relationship between weather and health, through quantifying the impact drops in temperature had on hospital admissions.
His research interests cover survey research methods and official statistics, and applying statistical methods to better understand demographic processes.