Integrating work and family life in sub-Saharan Africa
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The challenges of integrating work and family life are part of everyday reality for the majority of working families across the world. However, much of the research and policy dialogue in this area has been taking place in Western countries, resulting in a paucity of cross-cultural and comparative…
Poor measurement, poor policy: An investigation of recent fertility in Iran
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In 2011, the United Nations Population Division published its World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. In this report, the Iranian TFR was estimated to have fallen from 1.96 in 2000-2005 to 1.59 in 2010-2015. It was then projected to fall by 2025-2030 to 1.34 in the medium variant projection…
Mortality muddles in the Pacific
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This seminar will review the problem of multiple disparate estimates of mortality in Pacific Island populations being produced by a variety of governments and agencies, which appear to have increased overtime. These mortality estimates relate particularly to infant/child mortality (IMR, U5M) and…
Historical demography forum
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Rebecca Kippen and Janet McCalman, Helen Moyle and Peter McDonald look at 3 different periods in Australia's demographic past - Tasmanian convict women in the early 19th century, the fall in fertility in marriage later in the century and population and family policy in the 20th century. Rebecca…
PhD mid-term seminar - The evolution of population ageing in Australia: geo-demographic and life course dimensions, 1961-2031
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This is a PhD mid-term seminar. Nerida Hunter is a PhD Candidate with ADSRI.
PhD proposal seminar - Citizenship and the right to stay: The case of stateless children in temporary shelter areas along the Thailand Myanmar border
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This is a PhD proposal seminar. Ladawan is a PhD Candidate in ADSRI.
The survival of lineage populations in the past: A simulation study
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Humankind has a natural desire to survive. This is true for individuals, families, lineages and a population as whole. Accordingly, many people had hoped that their descendent groups or lineages could survive forever; but we know that many such lineage populations have become extinct during the…