The Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population is an interdisciplinary program based in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Its purpose is to encourage and facilitate faculty research in economics and other areas of the social sciences, with special emphasis on the analysis of population and the relationship between population change and changes in the economy and society.

The Institute's research associates number about forty faculty members from various departments of the University and interdisciplinary cooperation is encouraged.

The Institute issues a series of reports known as QSEP Research Reports authored by individual research associates. These reports, or abstracts of them, are distributed widely in North America and other parts of the world. The Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population has been in existence since 1981.