ADSRI members have been involved in 2 major population conferences recently - the European Population Conference 2012 and the Population Association of America 2012 Annual Meeting.

European Population Conference 2012

The European Population Conference 2012 was held in Stockholm, Sweden from 13 – 16 June, with the theme, gender, policies and population.

Professor Peter McDonald gave a keynote address at the Opening Plenary session of the European Population Conference entitled: The macro-economic benefits of gender equity policies. Professor McDonald also chaired the family policy session.

The following papers were presented ADSRI staff and PhD candidates. Papers or abstracts can be found on the conference website.

• Family life and developmental idealism in Yazd, Iran
  Mohammad J Abbasi-Shavazi, Abbas Askari-Nodoushan and Arland Thornton
   
• Fertility projection in Iran: a new approach to measurement of fertility
  Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi, Peter McDonald and Mohammad J Abbasi-Shavazi
   
• How many people are living alone? How many are living in two dwellings? The case of France
  Sophie Pennec and Laurent Toulemon
   
• Living apart together: comparing older adults in different relationship types
  Edith Gray, Ann Evans and Anna Reimondos
   
• STI/HIV knowledge and sexual behaviour: evidence from the 2010 Transition to Adulthood Survey of Greater Jakarta
  Anna Reimondos, Iwu D Utomo, Peter McDonald and Terence H Hull
   
• Two-home residents: long-lasting or transitory family situation? The case of France
  Laurent Toulemon and Sophie Pennec
   
• Different orientations of adaptation of males and females: a study among second-generation Afghans in Iran (poster)
  Rasoul Sadeghi, Mohammad J Abbasi-Shavazi and Nasibeh Zanjari
   
• Influences on the knowledge and beliefs of ordinary people about developmental hierarchies (poster)
  Georgina Binstock, Arland Thornton, Mohammad J Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Yu Xie and Kathryn M. Yount
   
• Learning from 'Where’s Wally?': measuring missing populations and families caring for children with disability (poster)
  Annemarie Ashton-Wyatt
  » article about Annemarie’s poster

Population Association of America 2012 Annual Meeting

The Population Association of America 2012 Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco from 3 – 5 May. Professor M Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi chaired the session on perspectives on fertility in Asia and Professor Terence Hull chaired the session on family planning and reproductive health in the Asian context and was the discussant for the session on contextual and policy influences on reproductive health and fertility.

The following papers were presented by ADSRI staff and students. Papers or abstracts can be found on the conference website.

• Aging and cognitive impairment: Modeling the trajectories using dynamic microsimulation approach
  Binod Nepal, Laurie Brown, Heather Booth, Sophie Pennec, Richard Burns, Kaarin Anstey and Kim Kiely
   
• Changes in childbearing desires and expectations of childless men and women
  Edith Gray, Anna Reimondos and Ann Evans
   
• Electoral redistribution in Australia: Accommodating 150 years of demographic change
  John Juriansz and Brian Opeskin
   
• Life course markers, independence from parents and locus of control among young adults in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia
  Peter McDonald, Iwu D Utomo and Anna Reimondos
   
• Patterns of aged-people life expectancy in three Chinese cities
  Jiaying Zhao, Jow-Ching Tu and Zhongwei Zhao
   
• Premarital sex, conception and birth among young adults in Jakarta, Bekasi and Tanggerang, Indonesia
  Iwu D Utomo and Peter McDonald
   
• Family life and developmental idealism in Yazd, Iran (poster)
  Mohammad J Abbasi-Shavazi and Abbas Askari-Nodoushan