W.D. Borrie Lecture:
| Dr Gavin Jones | The demography of disadvantage |
Plenary sessions:
| Dr Judith Banister | Recent population trends and issues in China |
| Professor Dick Bedford | Diaspora, diversity and dissent: Turbulent times in New Zealand's demographic development |
| Dr Adrian Hayes | |
| Dr Martin Bell | The business of demography |
| Dr Peter Morrison | The evolving role of demography in the US business arena |
| Professor John Nieuwenhuysen | |
| Graeme Hugo | Regional Australia's demography: Definitions, dynamism, diversity and dichotomy |
| Gerald Haberkorn | |
| Trevor Budge | Population decline in rural regions: A fair indicator of community and ecomonic wellbeing? |
Panel Discussion:
| Melinda Cilento | |
| Jenny Goldie | It's not just the economy, stupid |
Concurrent sessions:
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 |
Session 1A--Asian Population Trends | |
| Mana Akrapandit & Yothin Sawangdee | The impact of family size on child education attainment: A longitudinal study of a rural area in Thailand |
| Yothin Sawangdee & Mana Akrapandit | The impact of family size on family wealth: A longitudinal study of a rural area in Thailand |
| Terry Hull | Marriage changes in Indonesia |
| Mehtab S. Karim | Family planning in three Muslim countries: A blend of Islam and programmatic efforts |
Session 1B--Historical Demography | |
| Rebecca Kippen | Diarrhoea, marasmus, convulsions: Infant mortality in nineteenth-century Tasmania |
| Peter Curson | The dengue epidemic of 1925-26: Infectious disease and environment in early 20th century Australia |
| Briony Eckstein & Andrew Hinde | 'As soon as the baby is coming they are told to go' - the relationship between housing provision and low marital fertility of the 1930s in Britain |
Session 1C--Indigenous Population Issues | |
| Yohannes Kinfu & John Taylor | The components of Indigenous intercensal population change, 1996-2001 |
| Gaminiratne Wijesekere | Incarceration of Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults, 1991-2000: Trends and differentials |
Session 1D--Ageing | |
| Natalie Jackson | When the population clock stops ticking: The 'political arithmetick' of population ageing |
| Michael Rice | The fiscal management of our ageing population |
| Edward Jow-Ching Tu & Yuan Xin | Replacement migration in Hong Kong and Shanghai |
| Yaghoob Foroutan | Changes in the ageing population - A case study: Iran (1956-1996) |
Session 2A--Households and Housing | |
| John O'Leary | Exploring the relationship between households and the dwellings in which they reside |
| Angéliqe Parr | The babyboomers in context: An analysis of four generations in New South Wales |
| Maryann Wulff & Scott Baum | Housing aspirations of young Australians 1977-1997: A constructed cohort approach |
Session 2B--Health and Mortality I | |
| Shailendra Jain | Sex differentials in mortality in Australia, 1980-82 and 1998 |
| Paul Meyer & John Shelton-Agar | Chronic diseases across the life course |
| Janice Miller & John Shelton-Agar | Mortality and morbidity of lung diseases in Australia |
Session 2C--Estimating Populations | |
| Carl-Johan Rohlin & Martin Bell | Estimating service populations: Tracking diurnal variations in a campus population |
| Badr Hanna | An alternative way to estimate SLA populations: The second phase of the Medicare project |
| Bryan Kennedy, Martin Bell & John Taylor | Developing composite "estimated service populations" for Queensland's Aboriginal and Islander communities |
Session 2D--Population Geography I | |
| Ross Barker | Is Queensland different? Revelations from the 2001 Census |
| Alison Taylor & Vanessa Harvey | Forecasting futures - Intelligent scenario testing |
| Bob Birrell & Alison Taylor | Is the grass always greener at the city's edge?; A comparison of community well-being in a sunbelt area of the metropolitan periphery with a growing community on the fringe of a global city |
Session 3A--Developments in Offical Statistics | |
| Claire Conroy & Andrew Middleton | Rural and regional statistics: ABS initiatives |
| Paul Williams | 2001 Census of Population and Housing - Data quality and evaluation issues |
| Jane Kavanagh | 2001 Census dissemination and future developments |
Session 3B--Families I | |
| Jacqueline Campbell | I have two mums, one dad and two parents |
| Mansoor Khawaja | Emerging trends in cohabitation in New Zealand: Acohort analysis |
| Marian May | Attitude questions and the 'stroppy' respondent |
Session 3C--The Future of Population Projections | |
| Heather Booth & Len Smith | First probabilistic population forecasts for Australia |
| Tom Wilson & Martin Bell | Experiments in projeceting the population of Australia's regions |
| Richard Cumpston | Projections of Australia's population to 2051 by SLA - methods, results and concerns |
Session 3D--Population Geography II | |
| Margaret Reynolds | Constructing and testing a typolgy of socio-spatial polarisation: Melbourne, Australia |
| Ann Larson, Jill Rowbottom, John Pollard & Bert Veenendaal | Mapping rural and remote health: Problems and solutions |
| Dennis Griffith | Chalk or cheese?: Distinguishing between access disadvantage and geographic location in Australia |
Session 4A--Business and Applied Demography | |
| Alison Palmer | Assessing market potential - A case study of the Chinese speaking population in Australia |
| Peter Morrison | Gauging future prospects for a neighbourhood vehicle: Where demographic analysis fits in |
Session 4B--Health and Mortality II | |
| Nicola Tatham | Differentials in illicit drug use in Australia |
| Fadwa Al-Yaman, Meredith Bryant & Hilary Sargeant | Health status of Australian children |
| Bruce Caldwell | The health consequences of rapid urban growth: Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Session 4C--Fertility | |
| Yohannes Kinfu | Modelling and forecasting Australian fertility |
| Briony Eckstein & Andrew Hinde | How helpful are Coale's preconditions for fertility decline in explaining the British experience? |
| Tom Wilson | Trends in Scottish fertility 1946-2001 |
Session 4D--Rural and Regional Population Issues | |
| Suniti Bandaranaike | Small towns can make a difference |
| Gordon Forth | Strategies to address population decline in regional Australia |
| Paul Collits | Australian regional policy and its critics |
Session 5A--Australia's Demographic Agenda | |
| David Lucas | Recent surprises and changes in Australian demography |
| Dianne Proctor | Communicating the complexity of population issues |
| Australian Population Institute | A vision of a greater Australia |
Session 5B--Families II | |
| Gordon Carmichael, Andrea Whittaker & Peter McDonald | The Australian Family Formation Decisions Project: A progress report |
| Mike Stratton | Understanding family data - 2001 Census of Population and Housing |
Session 5C--Demographic Methods | |
| Tony Melhuish | An evaluation of synthetic household populations for Census Collection Districts created using spatial microsimulation techniques |
| Vic Jennings, Bill Lloyd-Smith & Duncan Ironmonger | Three dimensional modelling of household size distribution |
| Alan Jenner | Population estimates for non-standard geographical areas: The small area pilot project |
Session 5D--Internal Migration | |
| Martin Bell & Elin Charles-Edwards | Comparing internal migration between countries |
| Ann Larson, Martin Bell & Anne Young | Relation between mobility and women's health |
| Ian Burnley & Peter Murphy | Motivation and attitudinal aspects of recent movers and lifetime migrants in population turnaround regions of New South Wales |
Session 6A--Population and the Environment | |
| Alan Jones | Population and ecological goals for spaceship Earth |
| Jenny Goldie | To what extent does the Australian print media address environment when commenting on populatin policy? |
| Narayani Tiwari | Women's agency in relation to population and environment in rural Nepal |
Session 6C--Longitudinal Surveys and Research Methods | |
| Nicole Watson & Mark Wooden | The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey: An introduction |
| Carol Soloff | An Australian first - the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children: An introduction |
Session 6D--International Migration | |
| Christine Inglis | International and regional migration among skilled professionals |
| Elsie Ho, Charlotte Bedford & Dick Bedford | Trans-Tasman migration under a new Australian welfare regime: The evidence to date |
| Ian Burnley | Immigration and Sydney's future 2001-2020 |
| Patricia O'Connor | A social demography of contmeporary Irish migration to Australia: A Melbourne case study |