Recently added articles from Journal of Population Research:
How parenthood experiences influence desire for more children in Australia: a qualitative study.(Report)
May 01, 2008; Newman, Lareen ... The low-fertility debate in developed countries has focused on the limits to family size posed by the financial costs of raising children, and difficulties combining work and family. Little attention has been given to the physical and socio-psychological experiences of conception, ...
Is demography destiny? The role of structural and demographic factors in Australia's past and future labour supply.(Report)
May 01, 2008; Temple, Jeromey B. ... Following the release of the Intergenerational Report, the Australian Treasury identified the levers to address the economic effects of demographic ageing as 'the three Ps': population, participation and productivity. To date, the first 'P', population, has been treated as an exogenous ...
Men's condom use in higher-risk sex: trends in five sub-Saharan African countries.(Report)(Survey)
May 01, 2008; Adair, Timothy ... This paper analyses trends in men's condom use at last higher-risk sex (i.e., with a non-marital, non-cohabiting partner) using the two most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in five sub-Saharan African countries: Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Burkina Faso. Condom use is ...
Women's employment, religion and multiculturalism: socio-demographic emphasis.(Report)
May 01, 2008; Foroutan, Yaghoob ... Giving the central focus to 'religious affiliation' which 'was once at the forefront of demographic research' (McQuillan 2004: 25), this paper examines the association between religion and women's market employment. Generally speaking, gender characteristics such as high fertility and low ...
Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam and Janet Sceats, The New Zealand Family from 1840: A Demographic History.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Jackson, Natalie ... Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam and Janet Sceats, The New Zealand Family from 1840: A Demographic History. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007, 454 pp. The New Zealand Family from 1840 is a finely nuanced and meticulously compiled historical-demographic record. It ...
Gary D. Bouma and Rod Ling, The Research Process.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Kippen, Rebecca ... Gary D. Bouma and Rod Ling, The Research Process, fifth edition. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004, 250 pp. The fact that The Research Process is now in its fifth edition, having first been published in 1984, is testament to its widespread utility. It is on course ...
World Health Organization: World Health Statistics 2007.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Choi, Ching ... World Health Organization: World Health Statistics 2007. Geneva: no date. 86 pp. World Health Statistics 2007 is a selection of country-specific health data held in the various databases of WHO. It covers the seven broad topics of mortality, morbidity, health service coverage, ...