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🔖 NEW findings from the ESRC-funded FertilityTrends project

The first study to examine how having children in Britain has changed over 3 decades, by child order (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), and to compare these changes between England & Wales and Scotland

➡️Article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2491354

#fertility #birthorder #demography #population #populationstudies #socialscience #family #havingchildren #birthrates

Image shows web page for the Population Studies: A Journal of Demography article on Long-term fertility trends by birth order in Britain: Comparison between England & Wales and Scotland
Hill Kulu, Bernice Kuang, Sarah Christison & Ann Berrington
Received 11 Mar 2024, Accepted 10 Dec 2024, Published online: 12 Jun 2025

Abstract
This study uses census-linked administrative data to investigate childbearing trends by birth order in Britain over three decades. This is the first study to investigate longer-term changes in fertility dynamics in Britain by birth order and to compare parity-specific fertility by country. First-birth rates declined in the 1990s, slightly increased in the first decade of this century, and decreased thereafter, with changes in timing of parenthood responsible for these changes. Second- and third-birth rates declined in the 1990s but remained relatively stable in the early twenty-first century. Birth intervals remained unchanged, meaning that changes in quantum are responsible for trends in higher-order birth rates. Time trends are similar in England & Wales and Scotland but with significantly lower second- and third-birth rates in Scotland. Changes in population composition by education and ethnicity explain little of the aggregate fertility trends or between-country differences. Both countries have seen rapid declines in first-birth rates, especially among low-educated women.

Global population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56906-7

#HackerNews #GlobalPopulation #RuralUnderrepresentation #DataAnalysis #PopulationStudies #RuralData

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

A new study reveals that fertility rates can increase at high levels of human development. However, this relationship appears to have shifted after 2010.

Authors: Henrik Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova, Mikko Myrskylä
Published in Demography

www.demogr.mpg.de/go/j-shape

#FertilityTrends #Fertility #Demography #HumanDevelopment #BirthRates #EconomicProgress #SocialTrends #PopulationStudies #JShapeTheory

📢 Calling all #postgraduate students! There's a week to go until the call for papers opens for PopFest - the annual postgraduate #PopulationStudies conference, taking place at the University of Southampton, 7 – 8 July 2025.

Find out more about #PopFest25 👇
https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest_2025/

#demography #population #socialscience #sociology #socialstatistics #publichealth #socialpolicy #internationaldevelopment #humangeography #urbanplanning #socialanthropology #genderstudies

Image shows the University of Southampton campus and sights from around Southampton. Text advertises 'The British Society for Population Studies presents PopFest2025! 6-8 July, University of Southampton. Open to all PhD students. Accessible registration fee and bursaries available. Call for papers opens in 1 week, 13/01.' Logos featured are BSPS, CPC, NCRM, University of Southampton, Connecting Generations and Population Geography Research Group.

The BSPS annual conference attendees are in for an brilliant plenary presentation by the fantastic Dr Laura Sochas! Laura will give a presentation on Quantitative approaches for critical & feminist population studies: structure & heterogeneity on September 12 at the Keele Conference. #PopulationStudies #Demography #BSPS2023

Announcement of BSPS Early Career Award 2023 winner The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 BSPS Early Career award as Dr Laura Sochas, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow/Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science (Social Policy). In an outstanding field, the judges were impressed by the innovation and cross-disciplinarity of Laura's research agenda, and particularly the way that her work brings together quantitative and critical/feminist approaches. They felt that this has the potential both to disrupt the discipline of demography in a constructive way, and also to improve dialogue between demography and other disciplines.

🎓 We invite applications from qualified and highly motivated #students for three 3.5-year #PhD #scholarships in #Demography / #PopulationStudies / #Quantitative #Geography. The PhD #studentships are part of #ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations and are funded by the University of St Andrews.

You will work on one of the CPC-CG projects with a focus on how #generations support each other in different stages of their lives.

Apply by 12 July. Info: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/jobs/

Text reads: PhD scholarships in demography / population studies / quantitative geography. School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews. www.cpc.ac.uk/newjobs

@shauny@tech.lgbt
Not criticizing you! But the article is meatwash. Do nothing... just take a pill. Article is suggesting veggy + vegan diets are a third as effective as statins which is BS.

91% of cardio vascular disease including heart attacks etc are removed by lifestyle changes. 80%strokes. 90% diabetes. And on.

Statins added to blood pressure meds remove 20% to 30% CVD.

25% only vs 91%
Lifestyle change over 4 times more effective than statins + BP meds
[Also an eggs fish and cheese cholesterol fest diet (what is often termed vegetarian diets) are indistinguishable from SAD diets anyway for CVD whereas on the other end of the scale approaching a WFPB vegan is vastly different in the cohort & population studies]
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eliminating-90-of-heart-disease-risk/
#Statins #Cardiovascular #disease #lifestyle #nutrition #Vegan #WFPB #populationStudies #nutrition #vegetarian #CVD #heartDisease

@anuragasclepias
Discussion on the #iNaturalist forum that may be helpful.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/estimating-species-populations-from-number-of-users/29567
(Note the typo in your hashtag.)
#PopulationStudies

📣 New #OpenAccess paper alert:

"Women’s #fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey" is out now in #PopulationStudies.

We show pregnancies not ending in live births associated with worse physical health in mid- to later life among women, possibly due to unsafe #abortion; or health issues/stress linked to #miscarriage.

Joint work with T. Leone & F. Witolear.

#demography #PopulationHealth #Indonesia

https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2160004

A #OnePlaceWednesday heads-up that on #BlackFriday . . . our membership subscription will be the same amazing bargain that it is on the other 364 days of the year!

Interested in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite? Join up and join in for just £10 a year (free for full time students under 21). http://one-place-studies.org/join-us/

#Genealogy #Geneadons #MicroHistory #SocialHistory #PopulationStudies