Learn about the study of demography at ANU Open Day
Advisory session
Come join us at ANU Open Day 2019 and you’ll have the opportunity to learn about studying demography at ANU. Our academic experts will be on-hand all day on Level 2 of the Marie Reay Teaching Centre (Building #155) in Kambri to guide you through your study options and…
Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Study on Utilisation and Demographic Implications in Australia
Seminar
In Australia, as in most Western industrialised countries, fertility is dominated by a trend towards childbearing postponement. In the past 30 years, the fertility rate of Australian women aged 35-39 has more than doubled, and for women aged 40-44 it has tripled. Because of the negative impact of…
Social policies and population change
Seminar
This is a joint ANU Centre for European Studies and School of Demography Seminar The increase in life expectancy of today’s aging society means individuals must prepare for a longer length of retirement. However, an adequate pension becomes more complicated with increased work-related mobility in…
The demographic consequences of migration to, from and within Australia
Seminar
This presentation focuses on recent efforts to create a complete, consistent and detailed account of population change in Australia for assessing the specific contributions of migration and for studying the dynamic population movements that produced them. With increasing trends in life expectancy…
A General Mortality Model & Moving Verbal Autopsy from Research to Routine Use
Seminar
This seminar will have two parts. First, presentation of a formal mortality model, and second, discussion of efforts to rapidly improve information on cause of death where there are few data describing how people die. High quality data describing all-age mortality are not available for many low and…
Reconstruction of Race in the US Census 1790-2020
Seminar
In setting out the structure of the new Republic, the American Constitution required that a federal government carry out a full census of the resident population. From the first enumeration in 1789 the census has distinguished people according to race, initially in the categories free white males,…
Developing life tables for the Indigenous population: A journey in learning
Seminar
Although all deaths in Australia are likely to be registered, not all Indigenous deaths are identified as Indigenous when they are being registered. To deal with this problem of under-identification of Indigenous deaths, official life tables for the Indigenous population were based on indirect…