Sociologist & Demographer
Eleonora Mussino,
Professor of Sociology
I am an appointed Professor of Sociology at Umeå University in Northern Sweden.
My studies have focused primarily on international migration, one of the most important and contentious issues in contemporary European societies. I have contributed to the understanding of mechanisms underlying immigrant childbearing decisions and their contributions to a country’s overall fertility rate. I have also examined the provision of antenatal care and parental leave use among migrants and natives. These studies have shown that strong inequalities and structural barriers persist for immigrants in many destination countries.
Before coming to Umeå, I held a research position at Stockholm University’s Demography Unit (SUDA) and, before that, at the Italian National Statistical Office (Istat) in Rome, where I worked with the department responsible for the census of the foreign population in Italy. During my PhD studies, I completed the European Doctoral School for Demography and also participated in the International Max Planck Research School for Demography, located at the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.
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Photo: Östergötland, Sweden, close to Gunnar Andersson’s farm
Credit: Sven Drefahl
Featured Publications
- Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported COVID-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden (2024)
Because of the many national and international initiatives to track COVID-19 cases and deaths, we have a relatively good understanding of the mortality impact of the pandemic. However, most of the evidence is based on deaths specifically related to COVID-19. General mortality rates may tell a different story, as COVID-19 deaths were sometimes under-reported. Particularly in the first wave, deaths may not have been recorded as COVID-19-related if testing capacity was limited, if care for other conditions was compromised by overburdened health systems, or if fear of contracting the virus… Read more: Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported COVID-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden (2024) - Multiple systems estimation for studying over-coverage and its heterogeneity in population registers (2024)
In today’s data-driven policy landscape, the need for accurate and high-quality population data is crucial, especially for addressing the ongoing challenges and long-term consequences that have emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sweden, renowned for its detailed population registers, has been actively engaged in discussions on over-coverage in its data systems. This study examines to what extent international migrants were overcounted in population data in Sweden from 2003 to 2016. It finds that, in general, overcounting was relatively low in this period. However, there are discrepancies across socio-demographic groups.. … Read more: Multiple systems estimation for studying over-coverage and its heterogeneity in population registers (2024)