@davescholesy
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Florida State University. Interested in social and health demography and quantitative methods. https://sites.google.com/view/david-a-okunlola/about Thanks for stopping by! 😎
Plzzz take a look at our new @bmj.com commentary on the Demographic and Health Survey, its history, the sudden end of #USAID financing, and the possible futures of population health surveillance.
gh.bmj.com/content/11/2...
Yay! Found myself! Thank you! 😋
russia and USA population comparison, infographic
100 years ago USA and russia had almost an equal population.
100 years after USA have more than 2 times bigger population. If russians think their brutality, purges, genocides and meat grinders are advantages - they are wrong.
#demography
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"We are entering a post-transition world in which the tools and theories that served demography so well are under strain—especially when it comes to anticipating future fertility," writes Anne Goujon in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/44uUwnT
[Due to huge interests in this, I post it here as well] I came across this interesting demography problem on X. It looks obvious until you actually think about it. And if you ask GPT, it will not give you the correct answer!
Births fluctuate, but over five decades fertility in the EU27 was remarkably similar: almost all countries had a total fertility rate between 1.5 and 1.9. Ireland was the exception, at 2.4.
#demography #fertility #EU27 #Ireland #Poland #Germany
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
When asked if Jesus “will return to Earth someday,” more than half of all U.S. adults (55%), including three-quarters of Christians, say this will happen. Protestants in the evangelical (92%) and historically Black (86%) traditions are more likely than other Christians to say there will eventually be a second coming of Jesus. Roughly four-in-ten Americans either do not believe Jesus will return to Earth (25%) or say they do not believe in Jesus (16%). Respondents who said they believe Jesus will return to Earth were also asked how certain they are that this will happen during their lifetime. One-in-ten Americans say they believe the second coming of Jesus will definitely or probably occur during their lifetime, 27% are not sure if Jesus will return in their lifetime, and 19% say the return of Jesus will definitely or probably not occur during their lifetime. The proportion of Americans who say they believe Jesus will definitely or probably return during their lifetime is higher among Protestants in the historically Black tradition (22%) and evangelical Protestants (21%), and lower among Catholics (7%) and mainline Protestants (6%). And the share of Black (19%) and Hispanic (14%) Americans who believe that the second coming of Jesus will likely occur during their lifetime is greater than the corresponding share of White, non-Hispanic Americans (8%).
When asked if Jesus “will return to Earth someday,” more than half of all U.S. adults (55%), including three-quarters of Christians, said this will happen.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
I am actively searching for a remote internship or graduate fellowship (in 2026) in social, demographic, health, or social policy research. I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions, recommendations, or leads. Thank you!🙏🏾
#internship #social #demography #health #research #fellowship #datascience
Does anyone want to be formal demography reading buddies? I have a bunch of areas I’m trying to read up on and I feel like I’d get it faster if I had someone to explain results to and ask questions of.
New publication - if you're interested in demography and bias, this is for you:
Essential Demographic Methods - Kenneth W. Wachter
N-IUSSP: Prevalence of young children in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa
www.niussp.org/family-and-h...
#demography
#populationstudies
More than 9,000 studies, reports, & book chapters published based on 400+ DHS surveys that were conducted in 91 countries, according to our bibliometric analysis (by @aasli.bsky.social). The termination could set the global research community back for years or even decades.
osf.io/preprints/so...
‼️New Review Article just out! Zack Almquist and colleagues tackle the challenges of measuring📏 and defining homelessness in the US, a key rising 📈 phenomenon that deserves attention from demographers.
🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004053...
#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
Personal favor request: my son (9yo) wants to start a business teaching people how to solve Rubik's cubes and is doing some market research.
Can you help him by taking his 3-question survey?
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Global population data is in crisis – here’s why that matters theconversation.com/global-popul...
#demography
#populationstudies
N-IUSSP: The effect of two billion more people
www.niussp.org/environment-...
#demography
#populationstudies
Demography paper: we explore the link between mental or physical health and fertility desires across the life course. Mental health seems to trigger changes in reproductive goals at young ages (men), physical health becomes more important at older reproductive ages.
@erc.europa.eu
@univie.ac.at
Figure from academic paper showing decrease in employment, working hours, and earnings after menopause, with increases in likelihood of taking social benefits.
Thanks to @gabriconti.bsky.social & colleagues for this excellent paper bringing attention to the economic impacts of menopause.
Hopefully the big Oprah menopause TV special last night provides some new RDD opportunities! #econsky #demography #menopause
jenndowd.substack.com/p/hot-and-bo...
Men suffer significantly more loneliness, and almost no one is referring merely to gfs when they talk about it. There are many who do not have friends, aren't close to their family, and don't even make small talk. The demography of this means it's facile to frame it as individual failing.
Comic with Dog sitting at a table drinking coffee in a room saying "This is fine"
1/ If it feels like a tsunami of bad news right now, I’m here to cheer you up with one trend that is moving in a positive direction:
➡️ Age-specific rates of #dementia have decreased substantially since 1984.
#SomeGoodNews
jenndowd.substack.com/p/some-good-...
Trends in dementia prevalence over time in the US.
3/ But within each cohort, the percentage of people getting dementia is getting lower over time, as illustrated in this recent piece in @jama.com:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #demography
2/ It’s true that an aging population will bring higher *numbers* of dementia cases. One study estimated the number of US adults living with dementia will rise from 5 million in 2019 to 10 million in 2050.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Lithuania and Latvia are on track to lose over 20 times the number of people per 1,000 residents compared to the EU average, according to fresh analysis of Eurostat data by Bruegel.
Meanwhile, a graduate student has been waiting more than 9 months for a first round review at a major journal.
Because nothing says "we support our junior scholars" more than knee-capping their publication chances in advance of what is shaping up to be one of worst US job markets in recent memory.
