Our new #dataviz is online @SociusJournal: we show that shift from household-based surveys to remote data collection by mobile phone that occurred during COVID-19 pandemic may have led to deterioration of age data collected by interviewers in some LMICs, with possible consequences for measurement of demographic indicators and statistical models of socio-economic outcomes. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231158766

Our first publication in the new data description category introduces „The Human Multiple Births Database (HMBD): An international database on twin and other multiple births” by Catalina Torres, Arianna Caporali, and Gilles Pison. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/4/

Want to explore the potential of digital data and AI to analyze societies? In June, we will once again be running a Summer Institute in Computational Soc. Sci. in Paris. This year, we will focus on digital text data and NLP. Find out more at https://sicss.io/2023/paris and apply!

US-centrism in the content and editorship of all major sociology journals is holding the discipline back. We need an open access, high-status sociology journal that gives equal attention to all global regions - anyone willing to help set this up?

New open access paper with Jiaxin Shi, Alyson van Raalte, and Christiaan Monden! We study inequalities in the length of retirement in the US using HRS data. Overall, the higher educated can expect to spend more lifetime in retirement. Moreover, lower educated individuals have more inequality, and thus greater uncertainty, in the lifetime they spend being retired. We argue that our findings are relevant when planning and implementing pension reforms. Get it here: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac180