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Anatole Romaniuk, also written Romaniuc (born 28 February, 1924) is a demographer who made contributions in the areas of fertility, African demography, population projections, aboriginal studies and understanding of demographic processes. He played a key role in numerous censuses, including the first population census in the Democratic Republic of Congo, several censuses in Canada, and independent Ukraine’s first census.

Early Life and Education
Dr. Romaniuk was born in Zarozhany, now Khotyn Raion (District), Ukraine on 28 February, 1924. His childhood was affected at age five, by his father’s death (Ivan Romaniuk, mayor of the village of Zarozhany and parliamentarian for the North Bessarabia region (now Khotyn Raion) in the Parliament of Romania in the mid-1920s, which the region was part of between the First World War and the Second World War). Forced to leave behind his homeland in 1940 at age 16, due to the advance of the Soviet Red Army, he escaped to find himself in Przemyśl, Poland were he successfully completed his secondary education in a Ukrainian school. He survived the turmoil of the Seocnd World War, including the ordeal of imprisonment in Berlin and Vienna, to witness the collapse of Nazi Germany in Munich.

He pursued university studies at the University of Erlangen, Germany and the University of Leuven, Belgium where he completed a Ph.D in Economics. Separated from his mother and sister during the war, it took fifteen years of searching to locate and reconnect with them.

Career
He began his career as a demographer in the Congo, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, as Chief of the Demography Bureau (1953 – 1961), where he lead the first population census in that country. He became Research Associate at the Office of Population Research, University of Princeton, USA (1961 – 1964). While at Princeton he participated in the African Demographic Project which resulted in a major collective book, The Demography of Tropical Africa (Princeton University Press).

He settled in Canada in 1964 where he pursued an academic career at the University of Montreal and the University of Ottawa and occupied senior positions at Statistics Canada, a Canadian federal government agency (1968 - 1993), including as Director of the Demography Division. He is, since 1993, adjunct professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.

He is past president of the Federation of Canadian Demographers, and a longstanding member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He was honoured for his contributions to demography in a special issue of the Canadian Studies in Population journal.

Contribution to Demography
Dr. Romaniuk has written extensively in the areas of substantive, methodological and theoretical demography. His work has made significant contributions to the literature on human fertility and sterility in Africa, and the fertility of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. In technical demography, his contributions are in population estimates and projections, and in the application of non-conventional estimation methods in developing countries. In the theoretical realm some of his work has helped to expand the literature on the theory of demographic transition, particularly in connection with the dynamics of fertility change during the early stages of societal modernization. He has also contributed to the epistemology of forecasting and in the stationary population as a theoretical concept and policy vision.

Early in his career he undertook the first population census in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and later participated in the development of several censuses in Canada. In 2001 he was an advisor to independent Ukraine’s first census.

Awards
Canadian Population Society Award for his contribution to Canadian demography and the disciple of population studies.

Honorary Statistician of Ukraine’s Bureau of Statistics.

«L’Etoile de service en argent en récompense de bons et loyaux services, par arrêté royal belge du 5 décembre 1959», for his services in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Selected Bibliography
Romaniuk, A. 2013. Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic and Epidemiological Perspectives, contributor and co-editor with Frank Trovato, Alberta University Press.

Romaniuk, A. 2006. La démographie congolaise au milieu du XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Louvain.

Romaniuk, A. 1984. Fertility in Canada: From Baby-boom to Baby-bust, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

Romaniuk, A. 1987. Population Estimation Methods (Editor and contributor), Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

Romaniuk, A. 1968. La fécondité des populations congolaises, Paris: Mouton.

William Brass et al, 1968. The Demography of Tropical Africa, Princeton University Press.

Selected articles in scholarly journals
Romaniuk, A. 2012. Stationary Population as Policy Vision, Optimum online, Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 42 (1), March 2012.

Romaniuk, A. 2011. Review Essay on Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil, The MIT Press 2008, Canadian Studies of Population 38, No 1-2 Spring/Summer 2011.

Romaniuk, A. 2011. Un survol historique de la démographie de la République Démocratique du Congo,  Cahiers Économiques et Sociaux, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES),  Kinshasa, Vol. XXVIII (1), Juin 2011.

Romaniuk, A. 2011. Persistence of High Fertility in Tropical Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Population and Development Review, vol.37 (1), March 2011.

Romaniuk, A. 2008. History-based Explanatory Framework for Procreative Behaviours of Aboriginal People of Canada. Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 35(1) 2008:159-186.

Romaniuk, A. 2000. Aboriginal population of Canada: Growth Dynamics under Conditions of Encounter of Civilizations, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20(1), 2000.

Romaniuk, A. 1999. Matrimonial Behaviour in Canada and Ukraine: the Enduring Hold of Culture, (Co-authored with L. Chuiko), Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 1999.

Romaniuk, A. 1998. L'Europe face à son destin démographique, Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, De Boeck Université, Belgique, Tome XXXVII, 4ème Trimestre 1998.

Romaniuk, A. 1990. Population Projection as Prediction, Simulation and Prospective Analysis, Population Bulletin, Population Division of United Nations, 1990.

Romaniuk, A. 1981. Increase in Natural Fertility during Earlier Stages of Modernization: Canadian Indians Case Study, Demography, vol. 11(4) 1981.

Romaniuk, A. 1980. Increase in Natural Fertility during Earlier Stages of Modernization: Evidence form African Case Study, Zaire, Population Studies, vol. 34(2), 1980.

Romaniuk, A. 1973. Three Parameter Model for Birth Projection, Population Studies, vol. XXVII (3) 1973.

Romaniuk, A. 1968. Infertility in Tropical Africa, The Population of Tropical Africa, J.C. Caldwell and C. Okondjo (Eds.), London Longmans Green Col., 1968, pp. 215-224.

Non - scholarly books
Romaniuk, A. 2009. Biography of Ivan Onufriyovych Romaniuk. In Ukrainian.

Romaniuk, A. 2009. Le Congo de ma jeunesse, souvenirs et réflexion d’un démographe. (The Congo of my Youth: Reminiscences and Reflections of a Demographer), Kinshasa.

Romaniuk, A. 2006. Chronicles of a Life: Reminiscences and Thought Tied to History, autobiographical, in Ukrainian.