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 ...

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 & ...

BACKGROUND Individual lifespans differ. Some of those differences are due to heterogeneity, some to stochasticity. Some of the heterogeneity is due to socioeconomic, physiological, or environmental ...