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Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx23kz7e76po?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million

The right-wing Swiss People's Party calls the plan a "sustainability initiative", but opponents say it is a recipe for chaos.

ABC Feeds 3h ago

The trait that defines Australia's 1.1 million power couples
By Inga Ting, Katia Shatoba, Thomas Brettell, and Alex Palmer

The ranks of Australia's so-called power couples, in which both partners are university-educated, have almost quadrupled over 20 years. This could have profound implications for social inequality.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-13/how-university-education-became-a-dividing-line-in-marriage/106708316

#Relationships #Education #Marriage #Demographics #GenderEquality #GenderRoles #Anthropology #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #IngaTing #KatiaShatoba #ThomasBrettell # #AlexPalmer

Are you one of Australia's 1.1 million 'power couples'? Here's how you know

The ranks of Australia's so-called power couples, in which both partners are university-educated, have almost quadrupled over 20 years. This could have profound implications for social inequality.

NPR Topics: News 15h ago

Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5851795/iphone-birth-rate-drop

#Society #Demographics #Technology

NPR Topics: Business 15h ago

Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5851795/iphone-birth-rate-drop

#Business #Economy #Demographics

NPR Topics: Economy 15h ago

Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5851795/iphone-birth-rate-drop

#Economy #Demographics #Society

💧🌏 Greg Cocks 1d ago

Geospatial Analysis of Urban Population Model Discrepancies Through Land Use and the Built Environment - A Case Study of Croatia
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https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies6020043 <-- shared paper
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H/T Olga Bjelotomić Oršulić
“Using official Croatian census data as a reference, [the researchers] analysed three global population datasets across seven Croatian cities to investigate how population allocation differs between built-up and non-built-up areas.
Although the datasets often produced similar population totals, their spatial allocation differed substantially. GHS-POP concentrated over 1 million more inhabitants within built-up areas, while WorldPop allocated approximately 290,000 more inhabitants to non-built-up land-cover classes, demonstrating how similar population totals can mask substantial differences in spatial population patterns.
The question is not only how many people are estimated, but also where the model places them…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #gridded #population #urban #dataanalysis #shrinkingcities #census #censusvalidation #WorldPop #GHSPOP #GPWv4 #builtupareas #sustainability #SDG #casestudy #Croatia #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #populationdecline #demographics #urbanplanning #planning #city #cities #PopulationData #RemoteSensing #UrbanAnalytics #OpenData #SDG #model #modeling #urbanisation #density #QGIS #landcover
@MDPI

NYT > Home Page 2d ago

Democrats Try to Move Past 'Cultural Pandering' to Latinos for Midterm Elections

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/us/politics/latino-voters-democrats-elections.html

#Politics #Elections #Demographics

Democrats Try to Move Past ‘Cultural Pandering’ to Latinos for Midterm Elections

The party is trying desperately to win back some voters in the key swing group.

The New York Times

NYT > Politics 2d ago

Democrats Try to Move Past 'Cultural Pandering' to Latinos for Midterm Elections

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/us/politics/latino-voters-democrats-elections.html

#Politics #Elections #Demographics

Democrats Try to Move Past ‘Cultural Pandering’ to Latinos for Midterm Elections

The party is trying desperately to win back some voters in the key swing group.

The New York Times

ma𝕏pool 2d ago

Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310

Backround: From the launch 2007
through Feb 2011, the iPhone was limited to AT&T subscribers in the US. Smarphone exposure was limited to AT&T’s cellular network making natural experiment possible

Treated counties are systematically more urban than controls. They address this imbalance through the
SDID estimator’s pre-treatment reweighting of controls and using a complementary entropy-balanced Poisson specification.

... Entropy-balanced Poisson and synthetic difference-in-differences event studies imply that access to the iPhone reduced births by 4.5–8.0% at ages 15–19 and 3.2–6.6% at ages 20–24, with statistically significant but smaller declines among older cohorts. Placebo analyses applied to Verizon and Sprint’s pre-2011 coverage footprint are null. .... National-survey evidence on time use and sexual behavior is consistent with the iPhone reducing in-person interactions, increasing pornography use, and reducing sexual frequency.

#economics #demographics #socialMedia #socialScience

Bruce MacDonald 4d ago

'They are the most recent efforts to explain the sweeping fertility rate decline in the United States and other countries over the past 20 years. Researchers have already looked at contraception use, abortion rates, rising levels of female education and even the popular television show “16 and Pregnant.”'

Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?
By Sabrina Tavernise
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/iphone-birthrate-decline-studies.html

#phones #birthrates #demographics

Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?

Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

The New York Times