The 2012 APA conference with the theme of Population change: past, present and future, was held from 5-7 December in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
ADSRI was very well represented at the conference as you can see from the numbers of presented papers that are listed below.
Peter McDonald with Bob Birrell and Fiona McKenzie took part in the plenary debate on the topic: Taking the population pressure off capital cities: myth or reality?
Siew-Ean Khoo and Peter McDonald acted as discussants and Heather Booth, Ann Evans, Adrian Hayes and Siew-Ean Khoo chaired sessions at the conference.
The conference program with abstracts is available on the APA website.
3-minute thesis competition
PhD candidates competed in the 3-minute thesis competition. ADSRI PhD candidates did very well in the competition taking out 1st and 2nd place. Hasnani Rangkuti won with her presentation, Javanese in diaspora: Is nation controlled by the power of Java-Giant? (Indonesia case study). Amina Keygan came second with her presentation Childbearing intentions: what influences Australian men to change theirs?.
Papers presented by ADSRI staff, adjuncts and PhD candidates
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi; Graeme Hugo
Changing patterns of migration from Afghanistan: implications for Australia
Fadwa Al-Yaman; Ching Choi; Tetteh Dugbaza; Rob Hyndman; Brendan Scott; Len Smith; Richard Solon
An enhanced Indigenous mortality database
Pungkas Ali
Healthcare utilisation of the future population: comparing the effects of demographic and non-demographic factors in a case of Indonesia
Liz Allen
Child’s play: Measuring the direct and indirect contributions to child overweight and obesity
Annemarie Ashton-Wyatt
Child disability and families in Australia: demographic profile of a missing population
HM Boot
Women, work, and fertility: the importance of occupation status on the fertility of women in a Lancashire cotton textile manufacturing town 1837-1901
Heather Booth
Coherence in mortality forecasting: applications to the Australian population by sex and by state
Heather Booth; Pilar Rioseco; Heather Crawford
Demographic determinants of the social connectivity and wellbeing of older Australians: results from the Social Networks and Ageing Project
Barbara Edgar
An intergenerational model of ethnic occupational attainment in Sydney and Melbourne
Kate Golebiowska; Alicia Boyle
Employment and mobility trajectories of immigrant-born Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Workers in Darwin
Ann Evans; Edith Gray
Cohabitation and ‘Living Apart Together’
Edith Gray; Dharma Arunachalam
Patterns of contraceptive use
Edith Gray; Ann Evans
Repartnering
Adrian Hayes
Demographic drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in Asia
Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi; Peter McDonald; Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi
Fertility projection in Iran: a new approach to measurement of fertility
Terence Hull; Peter Kim Streatfield
Missing villages: demographic consequences of environmental catastrophes
Amina Keygan
Australian men’s fertility intentions: a review of the literature
Rebecca Kippen
Life and death in nineteenth-century Tasmania: a demographic view
David Lucas
Australian marriage 2011
Janet McCalman; Len Smith
Visible Aborigines: The historical demography of the colonisation of Aboriginal Victoria
Helen Moyle
The historical decline of fertility in Tasmania, Australia: the role of occupational status
Bruce Smyth
The high conflict post-divorce shared-time family
Ariane Utomo; Jeromey Temple; Peter McDonald; James Rice
Work and exit patterns of older workers in two Australian public service organisations
Iwu Utomo; Ariane Utomo; Anna Reimondos; Peter McDonald; Terry Hull
Attitudes to gender roles among school students in Indonesia: school textbooks, parental influence, and regional variation
Iwu Utomo; Peter McDonald; Anna Reimondos; Terence Hull; Ariane Utomo
Contraceptive use and sexual behaviour by unmarried young adults in Indonesia
Iwu Utomo; Peter McDonald; Ariane Utomo; Anna Reimondos; Terry Hull
School and province level differences in reproductive health knowledge of Grade 6 and Grade 12 students in Indonesia
Yan Yu
The body mass-mortality association in the United States: A reassessment of secular trends
YanYu; Heather Booth
Educational differences in mortality among Australian women and the role of smoking
Zhongwei Zhao
Toward a better understanding of daily mortality changes and their relationship with environmental conditions
Posters
Heather Booth; Rob Hyndman
Mortality forecasting: methods and software
Heather Booth; Paul Mathews
The role of confidants in social networks and self-rated health in later life
Iwu Utomo; Peter McDonald; Anna Reimondos; Terence Hull; Ariane Utomo. Contraceptive use and sexual behaviour by unmarried young adults in Indonesia