People and Place articles from April 2004

People and Place archives from April 2004

New population projections for Queensland and its Statistical Divisions.
April 1, 2004... The Queensland Government recently released its 2001-based population projections for the State and its Statistical Divisions. This paper reports on the main features of the projections to 2051 at the State level and to 2026 at the statistical...

Beyond three score years and ten: prospects for longevity in Australia.
April 1, 2004... Most estimates and projections of life expectancy are based on period measures. This paper presents forecasts of cohort life expectancy for older generations derived using the Lee-Carter method of forecasting mortality. These cohort measures...

Declines in first and second birth rates and their effect on levels of fertility.
April 1, 2004... This article analyses the fertility decline in Australia, focussing on the period from 1991 to 2000 when fertility data by women's age and parity status are available. It finds that much of the decline is due to increased childlessness and to...

Low fertility among women graduates.
April 1, 2004... Australian women who are university graduates have fewer children than non-graduates. In most cases this appears to be the result of circumstantial pressures not preference. Long years of study fill the most fertile years of women students and...

Financial outcomes for parents after separation.
April 1, 2004... This article examines the financial circumstances of separated parents who were registrants of the Australian Child Support Agency (CSA) at the time of separation (in 1997) and who remained registrants until at least 2001. The data facilitate a...

Why don't small households live in small dwellings?--Disentangling a planning dilemma.
April 1, 2004... Advocates for the compact city often suppose that smaller households mean people will want smaller dwellings. This paper analyses the growth in lone-person households in Australia and shows that most people who live alone prefer detached...

International migration and the growth of households in Sydney: a comment.
April 1, 2004... The previous issue of People and Place contains a paper by Peter McDonald and Jeromey Temple which analyses house-hold formation in NSW under various assumptions regarding Annual Net Migration (ANM). (1) The declared purpose of the paper is to...

International migration and the growth of households in Sydney: a response to Curnow.
April 1, 2004... Jill Curnow asserts that certain important statements that we have made in our article in the most recent issue of People and Place are largely unsubstantiated. (1) We accept that more detailed substantiation of these statements is required and...