Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Very neat new article on birth and death trends in Alaska, by Eric Sandberg:
live.laborstats.alaska.gov/trends-magazine/2026/Mar...
#Alaska #Births #Deaths #Demography #PopMastodon
'A quiet driver of population change: Birth-death balance that powered […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

'Arriaga Meets Kitagawa. Life Expectancy Decomposition With Population Subgroups' - Geographic Analysis, February 2026 (via @timriffe1.bsky.social on Bluesky)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gean.70033
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

'Seniors a Growing Slice of Alaska' - Alaska Economic Trends, March 2025
live.laborstats.alaska.gov/trends-magazine/2025/Mar...
#Alaska #Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States - Nature Communications This study releases a very high-resolution migration dataset that reveals trends that shape daily life: rising moves into high-income neighborhoods, racial gaps in upward mobility, and wildfire-driven moves.

'Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States' - Nature Communications, December 2025
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-68019-2
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

2 months ago

'The Languages Spoken in Alaska' and 'Nonresident Workers on the Rise' - Alaska Economic Trends, February 2026
live.laborstats.alaska.gov/trends-magazine/2026/Feb...
#Alaska #Population #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

Zillow removed climate risk scores, because property-level modeling is not foolproof When Zillow removed climate risk scores from property listings, many assumed the company acted out of political pressure. The main issue though was that the risk models behind the scores were not r…

‘Zillow removed climate risk scores, because property-level modeling is not foolproof’ - Flowing Data, December 2025
flowingdata.com/2025/12/09/zillow-remove...
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

'New Insights on Historic Causes of Maternal Deaths' - University of Michigan Population Studies Center, December 2025
psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-insights-on-his...
via @um-psc.bsky.social on Bluesky.
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

Research Insights, a Society of Actuaries Podcast: 2019 Individual Life Insurance Mortality Experience Report In this episode of the Society of Actuaries Research Insights Podcast, Dale Hall, Managing Director of Research at the Society of Actuaries, explores the 2019 Individual Life Insurance Mortality Experience Report with two expert guests: Jim Toole, FSA, CERA, MAAA, Chief Luminary at Aurora Actuarial, and Philip Adams, FSA, CERA, MAAA, Senior Experience Studies Actuary at the SOA Research Institute. They discuss the significant shifts in mortality trends from 2012 through 2019, including the dominance of level premium term insurance, the introduction of expanded preferred underwriting classes, and the increase in older age issue ages. The conversation also highlights the transition of data collection from MIB to the NAIC, and how predictive analytics like boosted decision trees and vine copulas were leveraged for data validation and insights. Actuaries will find insights into how these findings can support pricing, reserving, and risk management efforts, along with resources such as Tableau dashboards and downloadable text files that make data analysis more accessible. With post-2019 data expected soon, this episode offers timely reflections on the evolving landscape of individual life insurance mortality. Access the report and related materials by visiting the SOA website at:

'2019 Individual Life Insurance Mortality Experience Report' - Research Insights Podcast (SOA), November 2025
researchinsights.libsyn.com/2019-individual-life-ins...
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

From @timriffe1.bsky.social @timriffe1 on Bluesky:
"Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages/LEdecomp/in... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

'Does demography have a role in measuring homelessness? Insights and approaches in the United States' - Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, May 2025
https://doi.org/10.1553/p-5e53-9p3c
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

'Online obituaries as a complementary source of data for mortality in Canada' - Demographic Research, October 2025
https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2025.53.22
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

'Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks' - Population Studies, October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2550770
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

'USA Structures Data' (ArcGIS feature layer utilizing Federal Emergency Management Agency data) - U.S. Federal Datasets Shared by Esri
fedmaps.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html
#GIS #Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

Make Population Pyramids in Your Pop-ups with Arcade Use HTML + Arcade in your pop-ups to build a custom chart: a population pyramid.

'Make Population Pyramids in Your Pop-ups with Arcade' - ArcGIS Blog, October 2025
www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arc...
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

6 months ago

Baranof Island bears get first-ever state count State biologists estimate that 1,045 brown bears live on the 1,600-square-mile Southeast Alaska island, which is larger than Rhode Island.

'Baranof Island bears get first-ever state count' - KTOO, September 2025
www.ktoo.org/2025/09/15/baranof-islan...
#Alaska #Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

6 months ago

‘How Accurate Are High Resolution Settlement Maps at Predicting Population Counts in Data Scarce Settings?’ - Population, Space and Place, August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70083
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

6 months ago

Added WorldPop from @WorldPopProject and also ADB's 'Introduction to Small Area Estimation Techniques' to the Applied Demography Toolbox page:
https://applieddemogtoolbox.github.io/
https://www.worldpop.org/
www.adb.org/publications/small-area-... […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

MPIDR - 20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography MPIDR welcomes its 21st cohort of students The European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) opened its doors on September 1, 2005, with Vladimir Canudas-Romo delivering the first lecture of the Basic Mathematics course. This week, a new group of 18 EDSD students and one guest will begin their classes at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

'20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography' - MPIDR, September 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news...
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

'Cohort mortality forecasts indicate signs of deceleration in life expectancy gains' - PNAS, August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519179122
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

From @hggaddy.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/hggaddy.bsky.soc...
“📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

'Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: A Comprehensive Model Life Table Approach for Low- and Middle-Income Countries' - University of Pennsylvania, Population Center Working Papers, July 2025
repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/de1...
Via […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

Added
-Cornell PAD's API2Excel: https://pad.human.cornell.edu/tools/API2Excel/

-Karlinsky and Kobak's World Mortality Dataset: https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality

-US Census Bureau's Address Count Listing Files […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

Applied Demography Toolbox

Added a few items and made some updates to the Applied Demography Toolbox page:
https://applieddemogtoolbox.github.io/
#Demography #PopMastodon #AppliedDemogToolbox

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

‘Government Data Is Under Fire, but It Makes the World Go ‘Round’’ - Wall Street Journal, August 2025
www.wsj.com/personal-finance/bureau-...
#PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

'Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy' - Population Studies, July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2531823
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

@philipncohen.com @philipncohen.com
https://edyhsgr.shinyapps.io/CCRUnc_UNWPP2022Draft/
I started a few years ago, and the data download from UN WPP is slower now (maybe related to token requirement), but I think may be useful for comparisons.
Thinking, could set cohort change ratio years to […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

From Bluesky user @philipncohen.com‬ 'I would love to see a counterfactual historical projection, in which the fertility blip in 1944 was momentary, and the baby boom didn't follow. Where would we be today, with the same mortality and immigration rates? Demographic historical fiction. Come on.' […]

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

Thread from Bluesky user @timriffe1.bsky.social on mscalc for R, 'Calculates State Occupancy Times by Age from Discrete Time Transition Probabilities'
bsky.app/profile/timriffe1.bsky.s...
https://github.com/timriffe/mscalc
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia - Journal of Population Research As Australia’s population ages, the number of people living with dementia will grow considerably. Understanding local changes in the number of people living with dementia will facilitate suitable planning, costing, and service delivery for health and aged care services. To inform this task, this study presents estimates and projections from 2021 to 2036 of Australians living with dementia at the state and territory level, and at the finer regional SA3 level. Estimates and projections were prepared for 3 scenarios: where dementia prevalence rates by age, sex, and SA3 area (1) remain fixed (Constant Prevalence), (2) decrease exponentially by 1% per year (Decreasing Prevalence), or (3) increase exponentially by 1% per year (Increasing Prevalence). Regardless of the dementia prevalence scenario, there is projected to be strong growth of the number of people living with dementia between 2021 and 36 due to large growth in the older population. Even in the best-case, Decreasing Prevalence scenario, the number of persons living with dementia is projected to increase from 388,441 in 2021 to approximately 554,000 by 2036—a 42.8% rise. This increase is regionally heterogeneous, albeit correlated with numerical ageing. In all scenarios, by 2036, many SA3 areas will have fewer than 20 working-age persons for each person living with dementia, presenting challenges for the provision of dementia care. These results highlight the need for urgent local level policy and planning decisions to support dementia prevention, diagnosis, and prepare healthcare systems to support the care and quality of life of persons living with dementia.

'Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia' - Journal of Population Research, July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-025-09389-8
#Demography #PopMastodon

Eddie Hunsinger

@edyhsgr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

From Bluesky user @timriffe1.bsky.social‬: 'There is an exact procedure to abridge a single-age lifetable, but is there a method to graduate an abridged one that 1. Matches lx and ex in abridged ages 2. Is fully transitive (e.g. mx-ax-qx identity and others) 3. Is reasonably smooth 4. Has […]