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#demography #socialscience #geography #fertility #family #kin #ageing #gerontology #socialpolicy #economics #brexit #mentalhealth

📚 Demographic Desires
Medicine, Media and Emergency Contraception in India by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/demographic-desires-9781978768901/

#Anthropology #Demography

'Arriaga Meets Kitagawa. Life Expectancy Decomposition With Population Subgroups' - Geographic Analysis, February 2026 (via @timriffe1.bsky.social on Bluesky)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gean.70033
#Demography #PopMastodon

🌍 Is declining world population a problem?

🔗 https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/is-declining-world-population-a-problem/

#Demography #Health

'Seniors a Growing Slice of Alaska' - Alaska Economic Trends, March 2025
https://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/trends-magazine/2025/March/seniors-are-a-growing-slice-of-alaska
#Alaska #Demography #PopMastodon

📉 When data from the Office for National #Statistics #ONS confirmed a continued fall in #fertility rates across England and Wales, CPC-CG members were called upon to provide expert comment, with CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham describing it as "a really transitional moment" in The Guardian.

Read a round-up of our members' contributions on p.4 of the latest issue of our newsletter, Changing Populations:
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link

#demography #publicpolicy #birthrates #housing #economics

Image shows young couple considering their bills in a domestic kitchen setting with the headline ‘Falling fertility rates’. Article introduction text reads: When data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirmed a continued fall in fertility rates across England and Wales, CPC and CG members were called upon to provide expert comment.

The ONS Births in England and Wales: 2024 release reported a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.41 children per woman, a marginal drop from 1.42 in 2023. This is the lowest figure on record for the third year running. While most regions saw further decline, the West Midlands and London recorded slight increases, the first since 2021, with TFRs rising to 1.59 and 1.35 respectively.

The release also showed that the standardised mean age at childbirth rose again in 2024, reaching 31.0 for mothers and 33.9 for fathers. London had the highest average maternal age at 32.5. The sharpest decline in age-specific fertility was among 25 to 29-year-olds...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Akbaritabar/116086552052721358

@migration #PhD #sociology #job #academia #demography

🗞️ CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou (Department of #Gerontology at University of #Southampton) recently wrote an article examining why white British #families are more likely to depend on #grandparents for #childcare, drawing on findings from #UnderstandingSociety data.

Head to section 5 of the latest #ChangingPopulations magazine to read the article: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link&loc=play

#family #demography #ageing #workingparents #childcarecosts

Image shows grandfather helping toddler grandson to put shoes on in a playroom setting. Headline reads 'Grandparents and childcare' with intro text:

CPC-CG member Professor
Athina Vlachantoni and CPC-CG
Co-Director Professor Maria
Evandrou recently wrote an
article for The Conversation
examining why white British
families are more likely to depend
on grandparents for childcare.

Drawing on findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study,
Professors Vlachantoni and Evandrou from the University of
Southampton discuss how employment patterns, cultural
expectations, and health inequalities across ethnic communities
shape family childcare arrangements, offering new perspectives
on how intergenerational care connects to work, wellbeing and
ageing in the UK. They explain: About two-thirds of people in the UK will become grandparents
during their lifetime. Half of those grandparents will provide some
form of care to their grandchildren. But who makes up that half
depends on a number...

📑 A new paper by CPC-CG members introduces the first method that can predict how many relatives of any kind a person is likely to have at different points in their life, and how likely each outcome is:
https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/54/9

#demography #kinship #mathematicaldemography #populationstudies #lifeCourse #mortality #fertility #probability #matrixalgebra #combinatorics #convolution #kin #familyStructure #analyticModel #populationResearch #population #family #familystructures #demographicforecasting

Image shows front cover of Demographic Research journal article: Probabilistic projections of distributions of kin over the life course
By Joe Butterick, Jason Hilton, Jakub Bijak, Peter W F Smith, Erengul Dodd with abstract excerpt text:

Background: Mathematical kinship demography is an expanding area of research. Recent papers have explored the expected number of kin a typical individual should experience. Despite the uncertainty of the future number and distributions of kin, just one paper investigates it.

Objective: We aim to develop a new method for obtaining the probability that a typical population member experiences one or more of some kin at any age through the life course.

This week, the #Economics Observatory published articles on declining #fertility rates, featuring reflections from CPC-CG members Professor Ann Berrington (University of #Southampton) and Professor Hill Kulu (University of #StAndrews) on why people are having fewer #children, particularly in wealthy countries - catch-up in the overview article #BabyBust below ⤵️

https://www.economicsobservatory.com/baby-bust

#demography #population #birthrates #socialsciences #socialpolicy

'Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States' - Nature Communications, December 2025
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-68019-2
#Demography #PopMastodon

📑 CPC-CG members Dr Valentina Di Iasio, Professor Corrado Giulietti and Professor Jackie Wahba OBE (#Economics at the University of #Southampton) discuss their analysis of #UnderstandingSociety data examining the uneven social consequences of #Brexit in the UK and how it affected the #mentalhealth of #ethnicminority #youth ⤵️

https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-did-brexit-affect-the-mental-health-of-ethnic-minority-youth

#EUreferendum #europeanUnion #youngpeople #socialsciences #deprivation #demography

🔖 Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar on Thursday 26 February with Brienna Perelli-Harris, Head of the Department of #SocialStatistics and #Demography, University of Southampton.

Brienna will be discussing forced #displacement in #Ukraine.

All welcome to join us online - register at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/963/CPC_CG_Webinar__Brienna_Perelli_Harris

Promotional graphic for the CPC-CG seminar series. On the left, a person wearing headphones sits at a desk facing a computer screen showing a video call with multiple participants. On the right, a blue panel displays the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logos, and event details: Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton, presenting “Forced displacement in Ukraine: Decisions, measurement, and uncertainty”. The seminar is online on 26 February, 13:00–14:00 GMT.

Japan’s snap election gamble paid off for PM Sanae Takaichi, who now have the biggest majority in the lower house since World War 2. The import of the victory notwithstanding, Takaichi’s government and Japan face tough policy choices. Today's Number Theory breaks them down.

Read on HT app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/elections-are-only-the-first-of-sanae-takaichi-s-challenges-number-theory-101770779942581.html

#Japan #SanaeTakaichi #Takaichi #Politics #Economy #Demography #Debt #MilitarySpending #DataViz

Elections are only the first of Sanae Takaichi’s challenges

By Sreedev Krishnakumar

Election results released on Sunday vindicated Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s gamble to have snap polls in Japan. With a 75.7% seat share for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led alliance in the House of Representatives, her government will now have the biggest majority in Japan since the end of the second world war. The import of the victory notwithstanding, Takaichi’s government and Japan face tough policy choices. The charts below summarise this.

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Outrage as South Korean official suggests 'importing' foreign women to boost birth rate

"Women are human beings. Not breeding factories. The more women are treated in such a manner the less they want kids and that’s a good thing at this point in time." -- a Twitter reply to this article

#SouthKorea #Asian #GenderInequality #Demography #Population #Women #Korean

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20z4254524o

Paulo Jorge Fernandes e Gonçalo Gonçalves reactivaram o seminário "Revisitar o Século XIX", com o objectivo de recuperar a centralidade dos estudos sobre o chamado “Longo Século XIX”.

A próxima sessão vai ser na FCSH no dia 23 de Fevereiro, com Carlos Manuel Faísca a apresentar a comunicação "Alturas e desigualdade: desigualdade social e económica em Portugal antes da industrialização".

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/revisitar-xix-01/

#Histodons #Demography #19thCentury #SéculoXIX #Demografia #History #História

Cartaz do seminário permanente “Revisitar o Século XIX”, com imagem de uma fábrica/linha industrial em preto e branco no topo. Sessão: “Alturas e desigualdade: desigualdade social e económica em Portugal antes da industrialização”. Data e local: 23 de Fevereiro de 26, Auditório B2, Nova FCSH. Horário: 18:00–20:00. Orador: Carlos Manuel Faísca (Universidade de Coimbra, CEIS20). No rodapé surgem vários logótipos institucionais (ISCTE, CIES‑Iscte, IHC, Intopast, Nova FCSH, Universidade de Évora e FCT).

📉 #Education, #economic uncertainty and changing #genderroles are among the factors that have played a part in falling #fertility rates. Keeping the combination of causes in mind is essential for designing effective #policy responses

CPC-CG members Professor Ann Berrington and Professor Hill Kulu examine the evidence in a new #Economics Observatory article out today ⤵️ https://www.economicsobservatory.com/from-costs-to-culture-whats-behind-falling-fertility-in-rich-countries

#fallingfertility #decliningbirthrates #demography #socialsciene #birthrates #pronatalist #pronatal

@gilgwath

You make a point that was also made in response back in 2022 when the original author of this idea, #PaulMorland, wrote it in the Sunday Times; garnering a significant backlash but also, more than 3 years down the line, giving #ReformUKLtd the cover of 'but-but-but an academic wrote this!'.

This is not actually original thought on #MatthewGoodwin 's part.

https://standard.co.uk/news/uk/what-is-negative-child-benefit-demographer-proposes-taxing-childless-people-boost-population-b1010026.html

@junesim63
#demography #UKPolitics #Manchester

@ianbetteridge

Apparently, from the first time that this all came up back in 2022, you and some cat named Kat could have got together on the subject of #QuestionHeadlines .

https://stylist.co.uk/opinion/paul-morland-tax-childless/678713

#TheStylist #demography #PaulMorland #MatthewGoodwin

Earthquake-Hazard Exposure Of Residents With Potential Access And Functional Needs In The United States
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106002 <-- shared paper
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/68a73b5cd4be0207079713b5 <-- shared paper
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#Demography #demographic #Access #functional #needs #Vulnerability #Earthquake #Hazard #Warning #risk #geology #population #disability #accessibility #disabled #locals #census #spatialanalysis # #geostatistics #planning #management #death #injury #publicsafety #earlywarning #social #socialjustice #response #vulnerable #emergency #managers #earthquakeearlywarning #EEW #focus #publichealth #GIS #spatial #mapping #socialvulnerability #USA #spatialdatasets #resilience
#USGS

#demography

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