Thomas K. Burch from the University of Victoria, Canada compares scientific and engineering notation in demography, and presents the benefits of using engineering notation as part of a demographer's toolkit ..read more

Dan Chen and Yuying Tong write about their research on the association between children’s delayed marriage and parental psychological distress in China ..read more

Despite Iceland's reputation as one of the most gender equal countries, Sunna Símonardóttir's research suggests that parenthood is still very much equated with motherhood in the country ..read more

Aušra Maslauskaitė and Anja Steinbach write about their research in which they analysed parenting and childcare division among Lithuanian and Belarussian families ..read more

Family demographers have long been interested in the debate surrounding changes in the marriage institution, associated with concepts such as the deinstitutionalization of marriage and the Second Demographic Transition. These perspectives focus on alternatives to traditional heterosexual marriage (what can be termed the external context of marriage), such as lifetime singlehood, same-sex marriage, and non-marital ..read more

Lara Bister writes about her master thesis on maternity leave lengths and maternal health in the long-run in Germany ..read more

Agnieszka Fihel writes about the quality of multi-morbidity data and its importance in mortality research, based on her study of Poland ..read more

With levels of political violence spiking dramatically in the last decades, addressing the consequences of armed conflict for population dynamics is of paramount importance. In this post, Orsola Torrisi presents findings from research on family formation in Azerbaijan, a country embroiled in a violent, yet mostly forgotten conflict with Armenia since the early 1990s ..read more

Population age composition is recognized as determining numerous aspects of society – from fertility rates to pension policies. One type of population age structure, a youth bulge, has its own particular effects. A youth bulge generally refers to a population with a high proportion of 15-24 year olds. A positive effect of a youth bulge ..read more

Giorgi Kankia and Lika Zhvania write about population change in the country of Georgia from a spatial development perspective. Shrinking population The population of Georgia is shrinking. According to official statistics, it decreased by 1.2 mln (nearly 25% of the total population in 1990) in 1994 – 2018. Somewhat decreased fertility rates or armed conflicts ..read more