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Category Archives: Demography
Surviving the hazard (yes, that is what passes for a demography joke…)
Hill Kulu gave a seminar on housing and fertility at Southampton last week. He did use the words “linear spline” on a couple of occasions, but otherwise it was extremely accessible. He had used a hazard model to examine housing type, house moves … Continue reading
Posted in Academic research, Demography
Tagged hazard, housing, longitudinal, Nordic
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Population projection – and it’s depressing
My take-home message from today was slightly depressing. Sure, women do indeed live longer than men – but they live nearly all of those extra years with a disability. Sigh… I have a lingering interest in long-term care (for which … Continue reading
Posted in Academic research, Demography, Methods
Tagged change, population, projection, time
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