A skill your agent uses when executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert, double-anonymized review…

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Install Popdevr Data Analysis

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill popdevr-data-analysis -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills popdevr-data-analysis --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Population-and-Development-Review-Skills/skills/popdevr-data-analysis .claude/skills/popdevr-data-analysis && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
popdevr-data-analysis
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
731 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert, double-anonymized review…

  • Works in 7 steps: Get the denominators right. Exposure… → Report uncertainty honestly.… → Decomposition with clear components.… → …
  • Executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Analysis norms PDR expects, Demographic and comparative… and Reproducibility while you work…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Popdevr Data Analysis is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert, double-anonymized review — correct rate construction, honest uncertainty, and demographic methods done right, with the development/policy meaning of each quantity made clear. Guides analysis and reporting norms; it does not fabricate results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data analysis. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR
  • Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert
  • Double-anonymized review — correct rate construction
  • Honest uncertainty

Example prompts

  • “/popdevr-data-analysis”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Get the denominators right. Exposure (person-years), the correct base population, and
  2. Report uncertainty honestly. Confidence/credible intervals for rates, life-expectancy
  3. Decomposition with clear components. State precisely what each component (rate vs. composition,
  4. APC discipline. Be explicit about the identification problem; report under the stated constraint
  5. Survival/event-history rigor. Check proportional hazards; handle censoring, truncation, and
  6. Right inference for the data. Survey/design weights and complex-design variance where applicable;
  7. Make the development meaning explicit. For each headline quantity, say what it implies for the

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Popdevr Data Analysis loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 731 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~105
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 731 words, ~1,810 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/popdevr-data-analysis/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
popdevr-data-analysis
description
Use when executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert, double-anonymized review — correct rate construction, honest uncertainty, and demographic methods done right, with the development/policy meaning of each quantity made clear. Guides analysis and reporting norms; it does not fabricate results.

Data Analysis (popdevr-data-analysis)

PDR reviewers are expert demographers and development scholars, and the journal expects analyses that are reproducible and interpretable to a broad readership. Analyze as if a methodologist will re-derive your rates and an economist will ask what each number means for development — because both may. This skill covers execution and reporting norms; method choice lives in popdevr-research-design.

When to trigger

  • Constructing rates and life tables; building the results section
  • Running a decomposition, event-history, APC, or projection analysis
  • A reviewer asked for robustness, sensitivity, or alternative specifications
  • Making the analysis reproducible and its development meaning explicit before deposit

Analysis norms PDR expects

  1. Get the denominators right. Exposure (person-years), the correct base population, and age/period alignment are where demographic analyses live or die. Document how rates were built.
  2. Report uncertainty honestly. Confidence/credible intervals for rates, life-expectancy contributions, projection scenarios, and derived quantities — not just point estimates or stars. Bootstrap or delta-method intervals for decomposition components and life-table functions.
  3. Decomposition with clear components. State precisely what each component (rate vs. composition, age contribution, factor) represents and which maps to a development channel; ensure components sum to the total being explained.
  4. APC discipline. Be explicit about the identification problem; report under the stated constraint and show sensitivity to plausible alternatives — never imply a unique decomposition.
  5. Survival/event-history rigor. Check proportional hazards; handle censoring, truncation, and competing risks correctly; report on the right time scale (age, duration, period).
  6. Right inference for the data. Survey/design weights and complex-design variance where applicable; cluster at the appropriate level; small-sample corrections when groups (e.g., countries) are few.
  7. Make the development meaning explicit. For each headline quantity, say what it implies for the social, economic, or environmental outcome — the PDR bar is not a clean estimate alone.

Demographic and comparative computation specifics

  • Document data version/vintage (e.g., HMD/HFD/WPP release, DHS round), harmonization steps, and any smoothing/graduation applied to rates.
  • For projections: report the scenarios, base population, transition-rate assumptions, and sensitivity; tie scenarios to development or policy futures where that is the contribution.
  • For cross-country work: be explicit about comparability (definitions, coverage, data quality) before reading a cross-national contrast as a development effect.

Reproducibility while you work (not at the end)

  • One master script regenerates every table, figure, life table, decomposition, and projection from the (raw or constructed) data.
  • Set and report seeds for bootstrap and simulation.
  • Pin software/package versions (renv.lock, requirements.txt, recorded ssc/net installs).
  • Keep table/figure numbers in the manuscript matched to script outputs (see popdevr-transparency-and-data).
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Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

Run the battery, don't just enumerate it. Full map: execution-with-mcp. PDR is population studies blending quantitative and policy work; apply the chain to its empirical-causal papers.

  • Many outcomes / specifications: romano_wolf (step-down FWER) or benjamini_hochberg — report the adjusted threshold.
  • OVB sensitivity: oster_delta / sensemakr.
  • Inference: wild_cluster_bootstrap (few clusters), twoway_cluster / conley; multilevel data → cluster at the right level.
  • Re-fit off one handle: audit_result(result_id) lists the missing checks and the exact suggest_function for each.
  • Exhibits: etable / did_summary_to_latex from the handle — no retyped numbers.

Keep the decisive checks in the body and the exhaustive battery in the supplement. See the executed chain in the JF execution walkthrough.

Anti-patterns

  • Mismatched numerator/denominator or wrong exposure (the classic demographic error)
  • Point estimates of life expectancy, decomposition components, or projections with no uncertainty
  • An APC model presented as the uniquely correct partition
  • Reading a cross-country correlation as a development effect without addressing comparability
  • A results section whose rates and decompositions the code cannot reproduce

Evidence pass for PDR

Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the population process, the development/policy linkage, the data and time scale, the selection/measurement issue, and the uncertainty; then test whether the manuscript addresses PDR's broad audience who inspect both the population evidence and its development meaning.

  • Primary move: Audit unit, comparison, uncertainty, missingness, sensitivity, comparability, and reproducibility before making any prose or submission recommendation.
  • Decision ledger: return claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.
  • Sibling comparison: compare against Demography and Population Studies (methods-forward), Population Research and Policy Review (applied policy), and Studies in Family Planning (programs); if a neighbor has the stronger audience claim, recommend re-routing before polishing.
  • Verification floor: before submission-ready advice, re-open resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.

Output format

【Main quantity】rate / e0 / decomposition / hazard / projection + magnitude + interval
【Development meaning】what it implies for the social/economic/environmental outcome
【Exposure / denominator check】correctly constructed? [Y/N]
【Decomposition】components defined + sum to total? [Y/N/NA]
【APC / comparability】constraint stated / cross-country comparability addressed? [Y/N/NA]
【Inference】weights/clustering/competing risks handled? [Y/N]
【Reproducible】master script + seeds + pinned versions? [Y/N]
【Next】popdevr-tables-figures

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Population-and-Development-Review-Skills/skills/popdevr-data-analysis of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Popdevr Data Analysis

What does Popdevr Data Analysis do?

A skill your agent uses when executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert, double-anonymized review…. Popdevr Data Analysis is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert, double-anonymized review — correct rate construction, honest uncertainty, and demographic methods done right, with the development/policy meaning of each quantity made clear.

When should I use Popdevr Data Analysis?

Popdevr Data Analysis fits situations like: executing and reporting the analysis for a Population and Development Review (PDR; wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it survives expert; double-anonymized review — correct rate construction; honest uncertainty.

How do I install Popdevr Data Analysis in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill popdevr-data-analysis -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Population-and-Development-Review-Skills/skills/popdevr-data-analysis in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/popdevr-data-analysis in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Popdevr Data Analysis in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill popdevr-data-analysis -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Population-and-Development-Review-Skills/skills/popdevr-data-analysis in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/popdevr-data-analysis in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Popdevr Data Analysis in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill popdevr-data-analysis -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/popdevr-data-analysis, .gemini/skills/popdevr-data-analysis, .github/skills/popdevr-data-analysis and .opencode/skills/popdevr-data-analysis in your project.

What does Popdevr Data Analysis need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Popdevr Data Analysis is instructions for the agent only.

Does Popdevr Data Analysis access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Popdevr Data Analysis safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Popdevr Data Analysis use?

Popdevr Data Analysis is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Popdevr Data Analysis use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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