A typology of marriage formation models: a game-theoretic and agent-based modelling study
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Patterns of marriage can be recognized from datasets listing couples’ and individuals’ characteristics. However, such typical marriage datasets are hardly able to disclose the marriage formation processes of how those singles searching for partners before successfully mating. In various cultural…
Population census in the 21st century
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In August 2016, ABS conducted their five yearly population census. For many it was a major change in the approach to data collection, with a reliance on online completion. While the issues surrounding the website and Census Night are well-known the ABS initial assessment is that once again response…
Population projection and the implication on national budget: a case of Indonesian demographic profile
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Indonesia is the largest economy in Southeast Asia – accounting for just over a third of the region’s GDP – and is the world’s fourth most populous nation. The typical long-run demographic scenario for an emerging economy like Indonesia is that an increase in the number of young people will lead to…
Brexit, immigrants and nationalism: Britain leaves the club, 2016
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The presentation looks at the geographical and social aspects of the referendum which was narrowly won in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. The extensive official record is analysed in terms of the differing social, economic, political, and historical divisions of the…
Fifty years of deaths in Australia, 1856–1906: a view from the civil registers
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Analyses of mortality data in Australia generally do not examine the period before the formation of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics in 1905. Yet detailed information on death and its causes is available from the commencement of civil registration in the colonies in the mid-…
Fertility decline and shift in childbearing preferences among Bhutanese women
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Bhutan is witnessing a wave of drastic fertility decline in recent decades. Its total fertility rate (TFR) currently sits at 2.3 children per woman. Bhutan’s TFR declined from a high of 5.6 in 1994 to a near replacement fertility level of 2.3 in 2012. Since fertility is considered one of the…
The colonisation of Victoria and the Koori Health Research Database
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As part of an international project on colonisation and Indigenous health transitions, we have used the Koori Health Research Database (KHRD), an individual-level reconstitution of the Victorian Aboriginal population, to document the demographic and epidemiological transitions of Victorian Kooris…