International maritime migration to Australia: The migration processes and patterns of Afghan Hazaras and Sri Lankan Tamils between 2008 and 2013
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This is a PhD proposal seminar. Marie McCauliffe is a PhD candidate in ADSRI.
The demography of carbon emissions in Asia
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Many perspectives, both scientific and popular, on the causes of anthropogenic climate change take a simplistic view of the role of population, either reducing it simply to a question of size and growth or ignoring it altogether. This presentation explores how changing population composition…
Modelling marital fertility at the local level: The experience of Rawtenstall, 1851-1901
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The timing, character, and causes of the onset of sustained fertility decline in Victorian England are among the most intractable problems in the demographic and economic history of Victorian England. One reason for this intractability is that accurate data on age-specific and total measures of…
Ageing population and elderly care in Sri Lanka
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The unprecedented growth of the older population (age 60 and above), both in terms of absolute numbers and with regard to its share in the total population, is a striking feature of the Sri Lanka demographic scenario in recent times. Evidence in the South Asia regions confirms Sri Lanka has the…
Estimating fertility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women using Census data: Methodological issues and implications
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Estimating fertility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women has been challenging due to inaccuracies in the identification of Indigenous status in birth registrations, and due to the inconsistency between the numerator, ie births from registrations, and the denominator, ie estimated…
PhD final seminar - Modes of care for the elderly in Viet nam: Adaptation to change
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Cuc Hoang is a PhD Candidate in ADSRI.