The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new kinship configurations worldwide. But how quickly are changes taking place?

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In this piece, we demonstrate how to conduct age-period-cohort analysis, a ...

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Eric Finnigan, Vice President of Demographics Research at John Burns, to talk about the biggest themes and trends in American ...

Demographics may seem like a slow-moving force, but they carve powerful landscapes over time, just like glaciers,” says Eric Finnigan, Vice President of Demographics Research at John Burns Research & ...

BACKGROUND Individual lifespans differ. Some of those differences are due to heterogeneity, some to stochasticity. Some of the heterogeneity is due to socioeconomic, physiological, or environmental ...

With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing. By Sam Roberts Andrew A. Beveridge, a ...