In demography, our most common population projection tool is called cohort component projection. This tool treats different age groups (cohorts) separately, applying rates representing the three ...

The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new kinship configurations worldwide. But how quickly are changes taking place?

NextGenPop conference builds a new, diverse generation of population sciences students Work with a demography scholar at Emory University was enough to interest sociology major Courtney Fitzgerald in ...

Melinda Mills, known globally for groundbreaking research that combines social science with molecular genetics to explain demographics, will speak at Purdue on “Sociogenomics: Promises and Challenges ...

The digital revolution was only just beginning, when the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was adopted in 1994. We spoke with Yumiko Kamiya in UN ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In this piece, we demonstrate how to conduct age-period-cohort analysis, a ...

Demographics may seem like a slow-moving force, but they carve powerful landscapes over time, just like glaciers,” says Eric Finnigan, Vice President of Demographics Research at John Burns Research & ...

With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing. By Sam Roberts Andrew A. Beveridge, a ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...