School of Demography

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. 

The continuous decline in the number of births in China has caused extensive attention.

During the First World War, over 416,000 Australian Diggers volunteered to serve from 1914-1918.  During the course of the war 60,000 of these volunteers died, while an additional 155,000 were gassed or wounded.  The horrors of the War left scars among many Veterans that lingered through the remainder of their lives.