The Network on Demography and Social Change was approved by ESF Executive Council in November 1988 for a two-year period (1988-1990).
The Chairman was Dirk J van de Kaa, Professor of Demography at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in Wassenaar.

The aim of the Network was to study the interaction between demographic processes and social developments in contemporary Europe.
The dossier contains general documents concerning the Network on Demography and Social Change: correspondence; proposal for a Network on "Demographic processes and social developments"; first meeting of the Coordination Committee, Wassenaar, 16-17 March 1989; second meeting of the Coordination Committee, Strasbourg, 1-3 May 1989; first meeting of the Bureau of the Coordination Committee, Wiesbaden, 27 Oct 1989; third Coordination Committee meeting, Zurich, 8-9-Feb 1990; "Framework for fertility and family surveys project"; workshops in Ghent, 7-9 June 1990: "Applications of the life course approach to migrants in contemporary Europe" and "Applications of life course approach to household dynamics in contemporary Europe"; fourth meeting of the Coordination Committee, Ghent, 8 June 1990; Wassenaar symposium, 27-29 Sep 1990; proposal for phase 2.
Working groups correspondence: Working party: Recent family trends; Working group: International Migration.
Evaluation report 1993, final evaluations.

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