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On the Use of Engineering Notation in Demography: A Technical Note
Thomas K. Burch from the University of Victoria, Canada compares scientific and engineering notation in demography, and presents the benefits of using engineering notation as part of a demographer’s toolkit.
MARRIAGE FOR THE SAKE OF PARENTS? ADULT CHILDREN’S MARRIAGE FORMATION AND PARENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN CHINA
Dan Chen and Yuying Tong write about their research on the association between children’s delayed marriage and parental psychological distress in China.
Parenting culture and gender equality: the case of Iceland
Despite Iceland’s reputation as one of the most gender equal countries, Sunna Símonardóttir’s research suggests that parenthood is still very much equated with motherhood in the country.
Childcare in Lithuania and Belarus: How Gendered is Parenting in Eastern European Countries?
Aušra Maslauskaitė and Anja Steinbach write about their research in which they analysed parenting and childcare division among Lithuanian and Belarussian families.
Maternity leave and maternal health – do longer leaves mean better health for mothers?
Lara Bister writes about her master thesis on maternity leave lengths and maternal health in the long-run in Germany.
Multi-morbidity in the studies of mortality: how to use important information that is usually discarded
Agnieszka Fihel writes about the quality of multi-morbidity data and its importance in mortality research, based on her study of Poland.
Armed conflict and family formation: How the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict affected fertility and early marriage in Azerbaijan
With levels of political violence spiking dramatically in the last decades, addressing the consequences of armed conflict for population dynamics is of paramount importance. In this post, Orsola Torrisi presents findings from research on family formation in Azerbaijan, a country embroiled in a violent, yet mostly forgotten conflict with Armenia since the early 1990s.
Population change in Georgia from 1990 to 2018
Giorgi Kankia and Lika Zhvania write about population change in the country of Georgia from a spatial development perspective. Shrinking population The population of Georgia is shrinking. According to official statistics, it decreased by 1.2 mln (nearly 25% of the total population in 1990) in 1994 – 2018. Somewhat decreased fertility rates or armed conflicts […]
Older people living alone: trends, profiles and challenges of intergenerational integration
This blog post is written by Sarmitė Mikulionienė and Gražina Rapolienė about the outcomes of ageing in Lithuania.
Welcoming Contraception Failure? Towards a Flexible Model of Reproductive Decision-Making
Lea Taragin-Zeller discusses the lived experience of contraceptive choice and childbearing. Today, we have come used to thinking of every child as either “planned” or “unplanned”. Children are either a calculated choice of rational parents or a “mistake” made by irresponsible parents. But, while I was conducting research among Israel’s Orthodox Jews, I realised that […]
Make Demographic exploration a ‘piece of cake’: An app for interactive exploration of age-year specific population counts and mortality risks from the Human Mortality Database
Jon Minton introduces the Shiny app he developed for exploring mortality based on the Human Mortality Database.
Family Living Arrangements and the Transition to Adulthood in Europe
Katrin Schwanitz writes about cross-national variation in transition to adulthood.
Lost in Translation: Language Segregation among Hispanics in the United States?
Over 50 million Hispanics live in the United States. One-quarter speak English and no other language, and another 40% speak English very well. The other 18 million Hispanics are split between those who speak English well (38%), not well (37%), and not at all (26%). Remarkably, we know little about where Hispanics with divergent English […]
Understanding the Gap between Fertility Ideals and Intentions in Four Postindustrial Societies
Xiana Bueno and Mary Brinton write about the gap between fertility ideals and intentions in Sweden, Japan, United States and Spain.
Demography and life choices
Frans Willekens discusses multi-staged decision processes over the human life course. His post is based on the Population Studies special issue dedicated to the subject published in October 2017. 1.The importance of individual agency for demography Population change is determined by the life choices individuals and families make. To understand population change, we need to understand […]
A functional data analysis approach for forecasting age-specific population size: A case study for the United Kingdom
Han Lin Shang writes about forecasting age-specific population size based on an example of the UK. In recent decades, we have seen a considerable amount of development in the stochastic modelling and forecasting of population. Cohort component projection models are often used to model the evolution of age-specific population, and are particularly useful to highlight which […]
Notes on the relationship between education and fertility among men
Jessica Nisén writes about educational differences in fertility among men. Interest and literature on fertility patterns of men is on the increase among demographers. While educational differences in women’s fertility have been well documented, there is less corresponding research on men. The long-standing finding that women educated to higher levels often end up childless and […]
Inequality in adult life expectancy in low- and middle-income countries: The case of Indonesia
Nikkil Sudharsanan writes about the size and drivers of adult life expectancy disparities between socio-economic strata in Indonesia. For over 40 years, researchers have found that high socioeconomic status (SES) individuals in high-income countries live longer than individuals with low SES. Although these findings have existed for decades, interest in mortality inequality has surged in […]
ISIS violence against Yazidis in Iraq
Valeria Cetorelli writes about results of a new survey that estimates the extent of ISIS violence against Yazidis in Iraq. During the summer of 2014, ISIS subjugated the Nineveh governorate in northern Iraq, home to most of Iraq’s minority groups. These minorities were systematically targeted by ISIS in a violent campaign to ‘purify’ the region […]
Working with spatial data to generate a consistent demographic time series
In this post, Ilya Kashnitsky shows how we can use freely available data and statistical software to create a consistent demographic time series. NUTS stands for the Nomenclature of Territorial Units For Statistics. The history of NUTS dates back to the beginning of 1970s, when European countries developed unified standards for systems of administrative geography. It was […]
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