Childlessness, delayed childbearing and assisted reproduction in Australia
Webinar/Online
The mean age at birth continues to increase in low fertility countries. In Australia, in 1991 less than a quarter of women having their first child were over the age of 30, but this had recently risen to more than 60 percent. As family formation keeps being delayed, the ability of couples…
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on Australian life expectancy
Webinar/Online
The world-wide excess mortality caused by COVID-19 is more clearly understood under the perspective of years of life expectancy lost. A recent study on high-income countries presented changes in life expectancy for 29 populations between 2019 and 2020, with extreme losses of -1.7 and -2.2 years for…
Investigating factors influencing low fertility in Asia
Webinar/Online
Low fertility rates and other closely related trends such as declining family formation, later marriages, and rising age of first birth have been observed in many advanced Asian societies. In this context, understanding the determinants of marriage and fertility decisions carries with it important…
Indonesia’s 2020 Covid-19 Population Census
Webinar/Online
In March 2020 Statistics Indonesia (BPS) kicked off the largest, most expensive and innovative population census in the country’s history. Within weeks the Covid-19 pandemic brought on office lockdowns, mass infections, and a scramble to redesign the plans for data collection. Nonetheless, the…
Means of Production and Male Offspring in the Chinese Post-Socialist Transition
Webinar/Online
Previous research has documented that gender equality in many dimensions has deteriorated in former socialist countries. In this study, we focus on the effect of controlling means of production on having male offspring in the context of post-socialist economic transition in China. As…
Bivariate Outcome Small Area Estimation with Spatial-temporal Effects: The Case of Smoking Prevalence in Australia
Webinar/Online
It is common that target variables distribute diversely and sparsely in geographical space. This results in noisy estimates, make it difficult to interpret results. In such situations, small area estimation techniques could help reduce the standard error to an acceptable rate, through borrowing…
Trying again: reconciling after cohabitation and marital separation
Seminar
The speaker for this Demography Seminar is Edith Gray, who will present, 'Trying again: reconciling after cohabitation and marital separation'. Abstract: There is a large and growing literature looking at who remains single and who repartners after relationship dissolution. Most of…