{"title":"Social demography and pandemics","authors":"P. Dommaraju","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1811512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1811512","url":null,"abstract":"All the three components of demographic change – births, deaths and migration – are deeply affected by pandemics. While deaths are the most obvious, pandemics leave an imprint, over the short and l...","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"241 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1811512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45456856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geospatial analysis of female fertility in Oman: do immigrant female domestic workers make a difference?","authors":"Shawky Mansour, T. Al-Awadhi, Noura Al Nasiri","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1800224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1800224","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the progress achieved in transformational development in socioeconomic domains, in Oman, like other Gulf Cooperation Council states, fertility rates are higher compared with those in other Middle East nations. Reproductive behaviour often varies geographically; consequently, analysing and modelling this phenomenon should be conducted at subnational and finer levels to capture spatial heterogeneity patterns. In this research, data from the last Omani census are used and local indicators of spatial associations (LISA) as well as spatial econometric models have been employed to examine the effects of sociocultural factors, particularly foreign female domestic workers, on local fertility variations. Remarkable spatial differences were observed in the effects of structural covariates on fertility rates. Several spatial clusters indicate a correlation between higher fertility rates and higher values of other explanatory sociocultural variables. Furthermore, the subnational variations of fertility rates are significantly explained by geographical and sociocultural factors, such a surban-rural settlement, education, female employment in governmental sectors, unemployed women, and the proportion of foreign female domestic workers. The findings also reveal that the rural and Bedouin communities, particularly in the internal governorates, not only displayed higher fertility rates, but also had more unemployed women.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"30 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1800224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44076654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors associated with regional variation in disability-free life expectancy based on functional difficulty among older persons in the Philippines","authors":"J. Abalos, H. Booth","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1795997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1795997","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study describes regional differences in the prevalence of functional difficulty among older persons in the Philippines. Using this measure, the study examines regional variation in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and investigates the factors associated with this variation. Data are drawn from the 2010 Philippine Census of Population and Housing and the 2010 Philippine regional life tables. Disability-free status is defined as having no functional difficulties and is based on the binary composite of six individual functional difficulties, with no difficulties being contrasted with any difficulty. The Sullivan Method is employed to calculate DFLE and a series of bivariate meta-regression models are used to identify the socioeconomic factors associated with regional variation in DFLE. Results show substantial regional disparity in functional difficulty and DFLE among older men and older women. The population-level socioeconomic indicators associated with regional DFLE include the prevalence of poverty, GDP per capita, urbanisation, doctor to population ratio and level of education among younger adults. Associated indicators based on the older population are level of education among men and women, the labour force participation rate among men and the proportion currently married among women.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"264 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1795997","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42597429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of delaying school start time on adolescents’ time use and health: evidence from a policy change in South Korea","authors":"Dongkyu Yang, Jaesung Choi","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1794312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1794312","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines how delaying school start time to 9 o’clock affected the time use and health of secondary-school students in South Korea. To identify the causal effects of delaying school start time, we used a difference-in-differences methodology with two nationally representative datasets to take advantage of a unique natural experiment in South Korea. We found that the policy led students to sleep 16.1 min more on weekdays and 7.6 min less a day over the weekend, increasing sleep satisfaction among the affected students. Furthermore, the policy contributed to increased growth and improved mental health. However, the effects of the policy were not uniform across subgroups. In terms of time use, students from the highest socioeconomic group increased their sleep duration most. In contrast, students from the middle and lowest socioeconomic categories increased their use of electronic devices and decreased their study time compared to students from the highest socioeconomic group. We provide evidence that these behavioural differences by socioeconomic group could be related to the degree of parental monitoring and available economic resources.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"7 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1794312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46633068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spouses’ division of household labour in urban areas of Iran","authors":"F. Torabi","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1763018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1763018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In developing countries, women are 3.5 times more likely than men to participate in unpaid work. As a traditionally patriarchal society, strict gender roles existed in Iran but there is no empirical evidence to show whether profound socio-economic and demographic changes in the society have altered these deep-rooted stratified gender roles. This paper uses data from the 2014–2015 Time Use Survey, conducted in the urban areas of Iran, to describe the spouses’ division of household labour and determine the correlates of this division. The correlates are selected based on the relative resources and time availability approaches. The results suggest that wives are five times more likely than husbands to participate in the household labour, which is wider than the average gender gap observed in developing countries. The findings provide partial support for the relative resources and time availability approaches, with wives’ experience being more consistent with these approaches. The existing profound gender gap in the division of household labour and its correlates suggests that in urban areas of Iran gender roles are defined beyond socio-economic and demographic attributes, at least on the individual level.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"248 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1763018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42273854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Older persons in Thailand: an update from a recent national survey","authors":"B. Teerawichitchainan","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1794311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1794311","url":null,"abstract":"Thailand is one of the most aged countries in Southeast Asia. In 2020, older persons (defined as aged 60 and over) have outnumbered children under age 15 for the first time in Thai history. There a...","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"243 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1794311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46865371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internal migration in Indonesia: new insights from longitudinal data","authors":"E. Pardede, P. McCann, V. Venhorst","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1774139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1774139","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the roles of individual and household characteristics in internal migration in Indonesia for the first time using the five waves of Indonesia Family Life Survey. Our analysis extends previous research by using a longer period to capture mobility behaviour, by comparing changing of residence across three spatial scales, by incorporating the interaction of relation to household head and gender, and by differentiating migration involving the interaction of Sumatra, Java, other regions and rural-urban areas. The multinomial logistic regression results are consistent with international observations relating to age, education, marital status, previous migration, dependents, family size, and income. Some unique features from this study are the results which show that the probability of migrating by gender varies according to one’s relation to the household head, which highlights the importance of gender and family structure in migration decision-making. Residents of Java have lower probabilities of migrating, compared to non-Java residents for smaller spatial scale migrations, but are relatively likely to engage in inter-provincial migration. Urban-originating moves are more likely than rural-originating moves for all spatial scales except for Sumatra where its rural residents have a higher probability of migrating inter-provincially than its urban residents.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"287 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1774139","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46031371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Lee, Jennifer L. Klein, M. Wohar, Sang-seog Kim
{"title":"Factors delaying marriage in Korea: an analysis of the Korean population census data for 1990–2010","authors":"B. Lee, Jennifer L. Klein, M. Wohar, Sang-seog Kim","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1781380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1781380","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Korean total fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world. This study assesses a broad range of factors associated with delayed first marriages, an important determinant of low fertility, using the Korean Population Census 2 per cent sample from 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 and other data sources. Using a multivariate logistic regression, we examine the probability of ever being married for men and women aged 30–34 and 35–39 for different years. We find that women with higher education delay marriage compared to those with a high school degree. Highly educated men marry earlier than men with high school or less education, particularly those aged 35–39. The strongest gender effect occurs among those working in agriculture, a declining industry in Korea. Men working in agriculture are much less likely to marry by age 40, but women marry earlier. In 2005 and 2010, men working in stable, high-paying industries marry earlier, with similar effects for women aged 30–34. Finally, several regional characteristics are associated with delayed marriage including higher housing prices, higher income for women, lower unemployment rate for young women, and higher income inequality, lower income, and higher unemployment rate for men.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"71 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1781380","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48763914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting the measurement right! quantifying time poverty and multitasking from childcare among mothers with children across different age groups in rural north India","authors":"L. Irani, Vidya Vemireddy","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1778854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1778854","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Existing research suggests that women spend a disproportionate amount of time on unpaid housework and childcare compared to men. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on unequal time burdens due to childcare among women. This study analyses the quantum of time poverty and multitasking behaviours of 3623 rural women with children of varying ages across rural North India. Findings show that mothers with infants spend more time on childcare and less time on self-care and leisure, and employment-related activities as compared to mothers with older children; they also multitask with childcare more than mothers of older children across all their daily activities. Our findings suggest that interventions and policies need to be designed to raise awareness, identify/adopt novel approaches and technologies to reduce work burden of unpaid work on women’s time, provide accessible childcare and encourage a more equitable distribution of household responsibilities.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"94 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1778854","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44797467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between the ethnic composition of neighbourhood and fertility behaviours among immigrant wives in Taiwan","authors":"Doo-Sub Kim, Yiyun He, Yeonjin Lee","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1757849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1757849","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focused on the effects of the neighbourhood on the fertility outcomes among marriage immigrant wives in Taiwan. In particular, we investigated the effects of the proportion of marriage immigrants in the neighbourhood and ethnic composition of the neighbours on fertility behaviours of foreign wives. The study further explored whether and to what extent commercialised cross-border marriages moderate the relationships. Micro-data from the 2013 Living Demand of Foreign and Mainland Spouses and administrative data for 21 cities and counties were utilised in this study. We found that immigrant wives in an area with a higher proportion of marriage immigrants were likely to have higher fertility and shorter intervals between births. Immigrant wives who married through a broker were likely to have lower fertility if they were living in a neighbourhood with a higher proportion of marriage immigrants. The proportion of immigrants from Mainland China in the neighbourhood was negatively associated with fertility among immigrant wives from Mainland China.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"201 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1757849","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48573608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}