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W.D. Borrie Lecture:

Professor Ian Pool
The baby boom in New Zealand and other developed countries

Plenary sessions:

Professor Graeme Hugo
Policy issues in Australia's population future
Professor Peter McDonald
Population policy from the perspective of endogeneity
Professor Gavin Jones The regional context of Australian population policy
The Hon Greg Crafter
Influencing population policy to sustain regional Australia - the story of APOP SA
Mr Peter Hall
Rapid local population growth and premature ageing - the new sustainability crisis
Ms Cate Atkinson
City of Playford's population vision 2050
Dr Maruja Asis
Waltzing with transnationalism: International migration in the Philippines' destiny
Professor Barry Chiswick
Computer usage, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants
Professor Graeme Hugo
A new global migration regime

Presidential Address:

Professor Terence Hull
The strange history and problematic future of the Australian Census

Concurrent sessions:

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8

Session 1A--Fertility I

Mandy Yap, Brian Roberts, Ann Harding, Robert Tanton & Justine McNamara
The babybust: Trends in fertility among professional women, 1986 to 1996
Nick Parr
Who stops at one: Evidence from Australia
Lareen Newman & Graeme Hugo
Women's religion, education and fertility in contemporary South Australia

Session 1B--Internal Migration I

Elin Charles-Edwards, Martin Bell & Dominic Brown
Factors affecting the timing and magnitude of temporary moves in Australia: A poisson regression analysis
Angélique Parr, Dominic Brown, Martin Bell & Tom Wilson
Temporal continuity in return migration in Australia 1976-2001
Dominic Brown, Salut Muhidin, Martin Bell & Tom Wilson
The changing structure of Australian internal migration: Regional and cohort dimensions
Tom Wilson & Tony Barnes Who migrates interstate to and from the Northern Territory? Insights from the Census and survey data

Session 1C--Mortality

Ian McDermid
Issues in the analysis of the multiple causes of death data
Abdullah Al Mamum
Cardiovascular risk factors at age 50 and its consequences for life expectancy: A life-table analysis
Deanna Eldridge, Nicole Hunter & Cathy Hotstone
Leading causes of morbidity and mortality for Australian youth
Gour Dasvarma & Ross Steele Causes of death amongst the elderly in South Australia

Session 1D--International Migration I

Helen Ware
Refugee policy: Refugees and humanitarian entrants, who comes to Australia and who should come?
Siew-Ean Khoo
Health and other determinants of humanitarian migrants' economic participation
Julia Hinsliff
The impact of visa category on the settlement experiences of refugees: Is policy more important than theory?
Adrian Woithe & Graeme Hugo Some impacts of state specific regional migration schemes in South Australia

Session 2A--Fertility II

Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis
Fertility, desires, and intentions: A longitudinal analysis
Udoy Saikia, Gour Dasvarma & Jim Chalmers
Determinants of high fertility in three different societies of the Asia-Pacific region

Session 2B--Internal Migration II

Salut Muhidin & Andrei Rogers
Indirect estimation of migration using propensities of infant: The case of Indonesia
Andrew Howe
A proposed method of estimating regional migration in Australia
Nikola Sander, Martin Bell & Dominic Brown
Creating a typology of retirement migration flows in Australia

Session 2C--Intergenerational Relationships

Bruce Gregor
Grandparents & grandchildren - inflection points for baby boomers
Debra Judge
Intergenerational transfers and reproduction in Western Australian women
Wilawan Kanjanapan
Intergenerational support: An analysis of financial dependency of young people on their parents

Session 2D--Health, Labour Force and Ageing

Paul Meyer
The supply of doctors and nurses in Australia
Helen Ware & David Lucas
Ageing and the health workforce
David Cullen
The aged care dynamic cohort model

Session 3A--Family Formation

Gordon Carmichael & Andrea Whittaker
Forming relationships in Australia: Qualitative insights into a process important to human wellbeing
Zourkaleini Younoussi & Thomas K. LeGrand
Consensual unions in Burkina Faso: Levels, trends and determinants
Thomas LeGrand, Ann Evans, Siew-Ean Khoo & Peter McDonald
Consensual and marital relationships of immigrant youth in Australia and Canada

Session 3B--Gendered Demography

Ann Evans, Rebecca Kippen & Edith Gray
Are sons and daughters substitutable?
Di Rudd
Gender issues in youth out-migration from rural Australia
Bruce Caldwell
Gender access to child health services in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Session 3C--Demography and Housing

Maryann Wulff & Margaret Reynolds
Property price trends in Australian non-metropolitan housing markets, 1991-2001
John O'Leary, Jeremy Reynolds, Chris Wight & Anne Barlow
Free at last - the housing decisions of empty nesters
Debbie Faulkner
The ageing of Australia's population: Challenges for the housing market

Session 3D--Skilled International Migration

Max Tani
Head-content or headcount? Short-term skilled labour movements as a source of growth
Jennifer Blakeslee
Picking a living in the global labour market: Modern guestworker programs in comparative perspective
Kate Golebiowska
Regional policy for skilled migration in Australia and Canada

Session 4A--Forecasts and Estimates

Shane Nugent
A simple method for projecting the population of small areas: The simple component method
Chris Rudd, Ian McQueen & Gavin Burgess
Electoral boundary redesign using small area population forecasts
Tom Wilson
The forecast accuracy of Australian Bureau of Statistics national population projections
Mary Beneforti, Tony Barnes & Tom Wilson
Modelling the Northern Territory's population

Session 4B--Education

Alison Taylor, Lorraine McDonald & Jim Cooper
A model for projecting school enrolments in Queensland
Robbie Gillespie
The prevalence and trends of educational homogamy
Jacinta Poskey
Current spatial exploration of shifting education populations in zoned Adelaide metropolitan secondary schools
Yan Tan
Demographic trends in Australia's VET skills supply

Session 4C--Population and Labour Force

Natalie Jackson, Maggie Walter & Bruce Felmingham
Will older Australian workers change their retirement plans in line with government calls for later retirement?
Christine Kilmartin & James Darragh
Best of both worlds? Journey to city work by those living outside the metropolitan area
Jennifer Baxter
Maternal employment in the first twelve months after the birth: The effect of pre-birth job characteristics
Yaghoob Foroutan
Muslim/non-Muslim differentials in Australia's labour market

Session 5A--Housing

Dianne Olsberg
New life passages: Challenges for ageing & housing
Christopher Gascoigne
Spatial redistribution of low rental in metropolitan Adelaide 1986 to 2006
Tim Seelig & Jung Hoon Han
Mapping housing pathways: An analysis of housing consumption patterns among income support recipients over time
Tony Lockwood Delineation of spatial residential real estate submarket boundaries

Session 5B--Regional Development

Karen Wade
Tasmanian economic development, 1985-2005
Ross Steele & Ian McQueen
South Australia's demographic future to 2050: Certainties and uncertainties
Andrew Beer & Holli Thomas
Understanding the impacts of employment loss: Space, place and public policy
Roger Farrer Helping the little guys - how the Commonwealth Grants Commission slices the GST pie

Session 5C--Indigenous Populations

John Taylor
Social engineering and Indigenous demography: Testing implications of current policy directions
Frances Morphy
'Population' and 'household' in remote Aboriginal Australia: Thoughts from a 2006 Census study
Dominic Brown & Martin Bell
Cross-national comparisons of Indigenous mobility in Australia and New Zealand
Tom Wilson, John Condon & Tony Barnes
Northern Territory Indigenous life expectancy improvements, 1967-2004

Session 6A--Developments in Official Statistics

Patrick Corr
Projecting population milestone events: Balancing celebration and science
Andrew Middleton
Developments in migrant and ethnicity related statistics
Karen McGuigan
Census data enhancement project
Pramod Adhikari & Marion McEwin Socio-economic indexes for areas: A tool for assessing locational disadvantage

Session 6B--Towns and Regional Change

Fran Rolley, Jim Walmsley & Neil Argent
The sponge city hypothesis: Does it hold water?
Carl-Johan Rohlin
New residents in fast growth locations
Peter Smailes, Trevor Griffin & Neil Argent
A community-based review of a rural social revolution: Spatial aspects of rural change in south east Australia, 1981-2001
Dennis Griffith & Hock Lee
The development of Australian Bureau of Statistics mesh blocks in the Northern Territory by integrating digital imagery, GIS technology and Google Earth

Session 6C--Ageing

Heather Booth & Zhongwei Zhao

Age reporting at the oldest ages: Assessing accuracy
Helen Feist
Older people, ageing communities: Ageing in place in South Australian rural communities
Gabriel Rivara
The ageing of the Japanese population: A demographic crossroad

Session 7A--Applied Demography

Len Smith, Sophie Holloway, Tim Rowse & Stuart Hungerford
Digitising the Australian Historical Statistics Archive
David Lucas
Recent surprises and changes in Australian demography
Christopher Gascoigne & Bianca Barbaro
Clients in common - a social dataset
Paul C. Sutton
Darkness on the edge of town: Mapping urban and peri-urban Australia using Night-time Satellite Imagery

Session 7B--Families and Households

Alison Taylor & Jim Cooper
Changing living arrangements and household projections in Queensland
Lixia Qu
Starting and ending one-person households
Carol Soloff
Growing up in Australia: A study of change in children and their families
Jennifer Baxter & Michael Alexander A day in the life of a 4-year old: The effect of parental employment

Session 7C--International Migration II

Richard Bedford, Robert Didham, Elsie Ho & Viliami Tupou Futuna Liava
Contemporary migration between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand: A new spin on an old debate?
Elsie Ho, Richard Bedford & Robert Didham
Mobility and networks of New Zealanders living in Australia
Melinda Hammann
Changing demographic profile of Asian migrants in Australia in recent decades
Michael Zewdu
The Horn of Africa migrants in Adelaide and Melbourne: An emerging diaspora

Session 8A--2006 Census

Paul Williams
Counting the population: Enumeration strategies to cover a diverse community
Tony Barnes, Robyn Elliott, Mary Beneforti, Barbara Gray & Di Chambers
A partnership to support the 2006 Census in the Northern Territory
Michael Beahan
Results from the 2006 Census: A taste of what's to come
Abdul Hakim
Types of population concepts

Session 8B--Health

Nicole Hunter, Deanna Eldridge & Cathy Hotstone
Families and communities: The context in which Australian children are growing up
Binod Nepal
Is population mobility linked with HIV/AIDS in Asia? An interrogation of evidence and issues
Salut Muhidin, Dominic Brown & Martin Bell
Understanding the effect of migration on health status: A study of the adult population of Indonesia
Ranjan Shrestha
Family planning and the mortality risk of children: What can we learn from the Indonesian experience?

Session 8C--International Migration III

Kelly Parker
Away but not forgotten: The experiences of Australians in the United States
George Tan
Transnational migration strategies of international students in Australia
Tahmoores Behrouzinia
The assimilation factors related to students' migration

Session 8D--Historical Demography

Cathy Day
Inbreeding in 19th century Wiltshire
Rebecca Kippen
Family formation and fertility decline in late nineteenth-century Tasmania
Mac Boot & James Oeppen
Aspects of the family economy and fertility decline among British cotton workers between 1833 and 1895
Len Smith, Janet McCalman & Ian Anderson Deaths of Aboriginal Victorians 1870-2000
Len Smith & Vanessa Frame (Poster) The Australian Demographic Databank