A Bayesian approach to applied demography
Seminar
Applied demographers face some difficult statistical problems. Users of demographic statistics are demanding estimates and forecasts with levels of detail that traditional demographic methods do not support. New data sources are appearing all the time, but most of the source are noisy, incomplete,…
Changing education, changing fertility: A decomposition of completed fertility in Australia
Seminar
The expansion in education in Australia, particularly for women, is one of the most significant social changes of the last five decades. The relationship between education and fertility has been widely studied, and increases in higher education for women are consistently associated with lower…
School of Demography Seminar Tuesday 19 November
Seminar
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Masterclass: An overview of population level mortality data
Workshop
'An overview of population level mortality data: availability, quality, emerging problems' This Master Class will summarise the experience of the work on the Human Mortality Database Project. The Human Mortality Database (HMD, www.mortality.org) is the world´s leading data resource on mortality in…
Method of decomposition for the assessment of life expectancy trends with example of analysis of life expectancy stagnation in England and Wales
Seminar
Demographers often compare populations using aggregated scalar indices, for instance, the life expectancy or total fertility rate. These indices are functions of event-rates across various dimensions including age, cause of death, population group, etc. The classic decomposition task is to…
Diversifying Australia: Immigration and demographics in the post-White Australia policy era
Lecture
A free public lecture on how immigration has shaped the changing face of Australia since the end of the White Australia policy era Australia has one of the largest percentages of immigrant populations in the developed world with a highly regulated system of immigration control, and regular…
Diversification of causes of death in low mortality countries
Seminar
Lifespan variation has been decreasing in industrialised societies, as individuals became more homogeneous in their age at death. But are individuals also becoming more homogeneous in their causes of death? In this paper, we study the variation of causes of death and show that, due to the major…