Demographer in a sentence

Social demographer Mark McCrindle says the mega-council model makes sense in the south-east Queensland context – as the nation’s fastest-growing region, it needs the fastest-growing infrastructure.

The growth rate “is an uptick from the pandemic but still low by historical standards,” said William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.

After all, as demographer and mathematician Joel Cohen explains, the “right number of people” question depends on yet more questions, among them: What would be the accepted standard of material wealth?

As a social demographer, I find the current efforts to control reproductive behavior to increase birthrates in rich countries as problematic as earlier implicit and explicit efforts at “population control” in poor countries.

Australian National University demographer Liz Allen said the major factors determining where someone lives were affordability and lifestyle.

But Joshua Wilde, a demographer at the University of Oxford, added that in general, uncertain times correlate with lower birthrates, and that rhetoric about fertility does not always lead to action.

Growth rates above three per cent have "never been see in a developed country" since the 1950s, said Frédéric Payeur, a demographer at Quebec's provincial statistics agency, the Institut de la statistique du Québec.

Here’s where the conversation around the cost of parenting gets tricky, says Lyman Stone, a McGill demographer whose recent report, “Where Have All the Babies Gone?”, cites intensive parenting as a key factor driving the fertility decline.

Demographer Alfred Lotka proposed the reproduction number in the 1920s, as a measure of the rate of reproduction in a given population.

It’s the same thing in New York,” said USC demographer Dowell Myers.

And Steven A. Camarota, a demographer at the D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, said there are data points such as birth, death and school records that can be used to check the Census-based figures.

Anyone who claims they can reverse the aging process is lying, according to S. Jay Olshansky, demographer of the University of Chicago.

Cohen would justify his invasive questioning by citing his profession as a sociologist and demographer, the male colleague said.

Demographics explain two-thirds of everything, contends David Foot, Canada’s foremost demographer and a bestselling author.

Liz Allen, demographer at the Australian National University and one of the ABC's top five humanities researchers, tells me that big families are declining in Australia, and she predicts could soon be overtaken by families with just one child.

Once the demographer’s work is complete, the legislative maps would be filed with Senate and House commissions.

There are these swing groups, and the swing groups are in the suburbs," said Bill Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution.

The first attempt to analyse this data to estimate the number of famine deaths was carried out by American demographer Dr. Judith Banister and published in 1984.

This claim is supported by the work of demographer Nathan Keifitz.