School of Demography

Access to human mobility data is key for a wider variety of social challenges, including urban planning, sustainability, public health and economic development. Location trace data collected through digital technology, such as mobile applications, have become widely available to study human mobility, and overcome key limitations of traditional data streams, such as surveys and censuses. Yet, digital trace data are not representative of the general population, and consequently require statistical adjustment to mitigate existing biases and make robust statistical inferences.

Despite the Korean government expending trillions of Korean won to introduce pronatalist policy initiatives since 2005, South Korea’s total fertility rate (TFR) remains the lowest in the world. Fertility scholars have long attributed factors such as precarious economic conditions, the surge of women’s education and participation in the labour market, and longstanding traditional values to the country’s deteriorating fertility rate.

In this presentation, the implications of demographic change for future employment in Australia is explored. Australia is a country that has experienced considerable demographic change since 1981: population nearly doubled from 15 million to 26 million, male life expectancy at birth increased by 10 years, modal age at which women had babies increased by six years, and levels of immigration have both increased and diversified. 

Substantial disparities in longevity and disability exist between race, sex, and educational groups in the US. However, little research to date has taken an intersectional approach to simultaneously consider inequalities at the intersection of race, sex, and education. We also know little about how these intersectional inequalities have changed across successive birth cohorts, a particularly important topic given the changing history of racialised barriers to educational attainment in the US. 

Today, most highly educated immigrants to Europe are women. Many of them are in their childbearing years and have children after arrival. However, in contrast to their male partners, they often struggle to align their professional aspirations with traditional expectations of their parental role that may exist in their country of residence. Little is known about whether such misalignment affects highly educated immigrant women in particular. 

This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.

This 2-day course introduces the basic elements of population projections. Predicting the future population is one of the most frequently requested outputs from clients:

In this 2-day course, we'll learn skills that help demographers, policymakers, and health and social researchers measure differences between populations, and techniques that allow valid comparisons to be made across populations with differing compositions.

The National Centre for Health Workforce Studies (NCHWS) is a new group within the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, the College of Law, Governance and Policy. We Marco and Tomoko will first briefly describe the mission of the NCHWS, who we are, and our approach to our work. We will then present a recent modelling study designed to forecast the demand for public sector midwives in the ACT through to 2032. 

This presentation consists of two parts. The first part provides an overview of the Philippines’ demographic transitions, tracing historical trends in fertility, mortality, and migration. The second part focuses on the emerging issue of population ageing, drawing on findings from the Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Health in the Philippines (LSAHP)—the first nationally representative panel study on older Filipinos.