There are many reasons to be concerned about the growing and, now, long-term problem of jobs in Western Sydney. First there is the simple problem of insufficient jobs for its resident workers. Then there is the problem of jobs location. Overlaying both these concerns is the problem of long-term economic change and what this means...

Fertility patterns in the world have changed dramatically over the last few decades. Global fertility has reached unprecedented low levels, yet stark differences persist in childbearing patterns across countries and regions. The population and development implications of these diverse fertility patterns are directly relevant for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and...

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This fact sheet compares historic demographic patterns and central projections from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Treasury. It looks at trends relating to the total population, population ageing, fertility, life expectancy and migration. Treasury figures are of particular interest since they form the basis for the Intergenerational Report, an analysis of fiscal...

Doubly Constrained Spatial Interaction models have been used to analyse population flows in the form of both commuting and also migration. In this exploratory paper a computational search algorithm in Matlab is used to calibrate parameter estimates using Travel Zone based journey to work data from the 2011 ABS Census for the Sydney Greater Metropolitan...