Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dēmos) meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω (graphō) meaning "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Educational institutions usually treat demography as a field of sociology, though there are a number of independent demography departments.Patient demographics form the core of the data for any medical institution,such as patient and emergency contact information and patient medical record data. They allow for the identification of a patient and his …

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RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 September 2024 English

Administrative decisions mediate whether the millions who turn to the state for social services annually can access the assistance they need. We introduce the concept of intersectional burdens—which describes how …

Dispar- ities in Early COVID-19 Job Losses.” Demography 59(3): 827–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370


RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 September 2024 English

This article develops a cultural and contextual approach to studying agency that attends to variation in how people narrate their experiences. Drawing on the large-scale, nationally representative American Voices Project …

Computational Techniques with Qualitative Methods in Demography.” De- mographic Research 37: 1351–82. Charmaz


RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 September 2024 English

Mounting research has revealed how the labor of caregiving and parenting in the United States fell disproportionately to mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with negative impacts on mothers’ personal and …

Faring Under the Second Demo- graphic Transition.” Demography 41(4): 607–27. McLanahan, Sara, and Wade Jacobsen


RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 September 2024 English

We develop a novel application of machine learning and apply it to the interview transcripts from the American Voices Project (N = 1,396), using discourse atom topic modeling to explore …

“Family Change and Chang- ing Family Demography.” Demography 56(2): 405–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524–019–007 Pamela J., and Christine R. Schwartz. 2020. “The Demography of Families: A Review of Pat- terns and Change Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children.” Demography 54(1): 361–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524


RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 September 2024 English

This article uses a subsample of low-income American Voices Project respondents who rent their homes to examine how households coped with housing insecurity at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Housing In- formation Across Neighborhoods.” Demography 58(4): 1197–221. Boeing, Goeff, Max Besbris Prevalence and Neighborhood Consequences.” Demography 52(5): 1751–72. Docter, Benny, and Martha Galvez Arrangements of Children in Doubled- Up Households.” Demography 58(3): 821–46. Harvey, Hope, Kelly Fong, Kathryn


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English

One of the dominant features of global affairs the past few years is that the global world order is changing. This notion is usually discussed alongside concerns about the re-emergence …

While the U.S. certainly has unique geography and demography, the country’s signi�cant internal political


EU: European Union · 30 August 2024 Italian

migration from the Middle East and Africa because demography is in the minus, and we need more workers and


ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research · 30 August 2024 English

When the size of the maximum pension benefit is fixed, the cost of the pension scheme to policymaker and ultimately to taxpayers is affected by changes to the pension taper …

respectively. 26 Table 2: Parameters of Benchmark Model Demography n Population growth rate 0.011 ABS Data ψj Survival


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 29 August 2024 English

Abstract There have been several attempts to measure social capital—the value inhering in relationships—at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct …


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 28 August 2024 English

Abstract Large literatures have analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes and access to the safety net. For such analyses that rely on survey data, it is crucial that …

Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races.” Demography, 56(3): 999- 1021. Aigner, Dennis J. 1973.


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