Developmental idealism and ideational forces of family change in Yazd, Iran • Mohammad J. Abbasi-Shavazi , University of Tehran ; Abbas Askari-Nodoushan, Yazd University, Iran

Tempo effects on period fertility in turkey: a study from Turkey demographic and health surveys • Tuğba Adalı, Hacettepe University

Globalization, African value system and the inter-generational relations: implications for the care of the elderly in Nigeria • Emmanuel Ajiboye, Lagos State University ; Gbemiga E. Adeyemi, Lagos State University ; Adisa Waziri

An alternative approach to measure unmet need in Turkey • Banu Akadlı Ergöçmen, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies ; Alanur Cavlin Bozbeyoglu, Middle East Technical University

Why are we still unmarried and childless - the Croatian case • Andjelko Akrap, University of Zagreb ; Ivan Cipin, University of Zagreb

Exploring parent child connectedness from adolescent’s and parent’s perspectives: evidence from a pilot study from urban and rural area, Pune District, India • Mallika Alexander, KEM Hospital Research Centre ; Laila Garda, KEM Hospital Research Centre

Aging and sustainable development • Huda Alkitkat, Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC)

Activity limitations among adult population: evidence of Estonian FFS • Katre Altmets, University of Tartu ; Kalev Katus, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre ; Allan Puur, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre ; Astrid Saava, University of Tartu ; Anneli Uusküla, University of Tartu

Family size and quality of life nexus; case of Sunyani municipality • Jones Lewis Arthur, Sunyani Polytechnic

Motivations to avoid childbearing among contraceptive users in Honduras: which women are ambivalent? • Janine Barden-Ofallon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Ilene S. Speizer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jessica Levy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Javier Calix, Program for the Development of the Infant and the Mother (PRODIM) ; Francisco Rodriguez, Program for the Development of the Infant and the Mother (PRODIM)

Post-colonial populationsin remote Australia, ageing in a high migration population • Tony Barnes, Charles Darwin University

Residential choice and attitudes towards family and work • Marjolein Blaauboer, University of Amsterdam ; Clara H. Mulder, University of Amsterdam

An investigation into the complex effects of women's education on first births risks in Sweden • Karin Böttcher, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Between marriage and cohabitation: women first union patterns in Hungary • Cristina Bradatan, Texas Tech University ; Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Kansas State University

Is solo living is a matter of choice or circumstance in Turkey? • Pelin Cagatay, Hacettepe University ; Ismet Koc, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies

A retrospective analysis of fertility decline in turkey: an application of own-children method to Turkey demographic and health survey data sets • Pelin Cagatay, Hacettepe University

The consequences of population ageing in Turkey: a country at the onset of population ageing • Sebnem Canpolat, Hacettepe University

Changes in the practice of imam marriages in Turkey: 1963-2003 • Hatice Yaprak Civelek, Yeditepe University ; Ismet Koc, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies

The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy planning • Ernestina E. Coast, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ; Tiziana Leone, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ; Sara Randall, University College London

Divorce and remarriage in Flanders (Belgium): differentials according to the country of origin and the migration history • Martine Corijn, Research Centre of the Flemish Government, Brussels

Family support in the postmodern society: made-to-measure? • Trees De Bruycker, Ghent University

Fertility recuperation throughout the 1990s: a study among Belgian women of the 1960-65 birth cohorts who postponed fertility to a considerable extent • David De Wachter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Socio-economic variation in gender differentials in health: a life course analysis • Biplap Dhak, Institute for Social and Economic Change

Gender inequality in health outcome and health care utilization in India: its changes through the different stages of life course • Biplap Dhak, Institute for Social and Economic Change

Family transitions and job instability in two German cities: an East-West comparison • Paola Di Giulio, Vienna Institute of Demography ; Laura Bernardi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Université de Lausanne ; Anja Vatterrott, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Is marriage worthwhile? a study of investments and partnership formation in Spain, Germany and France • Marta Dominguez, Universidad Pompeu Fabra

Son-preference and fertility decline: impact on the sex-ratio of births to India-born mothers in England and Wales • Sylvie Dubuc, University of Oxford

Ageing of population in the countries of Transcaucasia: socio-economic aspects • Rufat Efendiyev, The National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Institute of Economy

The role of women in family and society in Iran • Parastoo Esmaeili, University of Tehran

Relationship between reproductive history and fitness in Hallstatt (Austria) • Mireia Esparza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Neus Martínez-Abadías, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Marta Muñoz Tudurí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Torstein Sjovold, Stockholm Universitet ; Rolando González-José, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ; Clara E. Garcia-Moro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Miguel Hernández

Generational differences in childbearing within marriage • Ann Evans, Australian National University ; Edith E. Gray, Australian National University

Remarriage in Portugal: contemporary tendencies • Ana Cristina Ferreira, ISCTE ; Cristina Lobo, ISCTE ; Isabel Oliveira, ISCTE ; Madalena Ramos, ISCTE

Fertility and nuptiality in transformation: comparing Poland and Estonia 1989-2005 • Ewa Fratczak, Warsaw School of Economics ; Kamil Sienkiewicz, Warsaw School of Economics ; Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska, Warsaw School of Economics ; Kalev Katus, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre ; Allan Puur, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre ; Asta Põldma, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre

More children or not? fertility of married women in Croatia. • Jakov Gelo, University of Zagreb ; Marin Strmota, University of Zagreb

Cuban international migration and low fertility conditions impact over the aging of the population. Consequences of intergenerational relations of older adults • Madelín Gómez León, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Esther María León Díaz, Centro de Estudios de Población y Desarrollo (CEPDE). ONE.

Transition to first marriage in Turkey • DeAnna L. Gore, Florida State University ; Elwood Carlson, Florida State University

Printed media and demographic education • Odeibler Guidugli

Does the family system in Romania follow the path of Southern European countries? • Mihaela Hărăguş, Babes-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies ; Cristina Oaneş, Babes-Bolyai University ; Maria Castiglioni, Università di Padova ; Paul-Teodor Hărăguş, Babes-Bolyai University

The effect of contraceptive use on parity progression: an empirical analysis in low fertility regions of Iran • Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi, University of Tehran ; Peter McDonald, Australian National University ; Mohammad J. Abbasi-Shavazi , University of Tehran ; Neda Moradi

Revisiting the proximate determinants of fertility in Nigeria: does the method of estimation matter? • Latifat Ibisomi, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

Who desire children in Japan? – changing in age and parity composition • Miho Iwasawa, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo ; Fusami Mita, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan

Derivatives of RCH program and their diffusive effects on most deprived communities in India: interactions of poverty, fertility and micro-economic effects • Niyati Joshi, Government of India ; C.P. Prakasam, Retired Professor from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Twenty years hence: changes in young Filipino women’s attitude toward premarital sex and unmarried childbearing since the 1980s • Maria Midea M. Kabamalan, University of the Philippines

High fertility in low fertility country (Caucasus case in Russia) • Irina E. Kalabikhina, Moscow State University

The transition of reproductive life course in Japan; the lexis-layer decomposition analysis of fertility decline • Ryuichi Kaneko, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo

The emergence of cohabitation in transitional socio-economic context: Evidence form Bulgarian and Russian GGS • Dora Kostova, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The formation of mortality inequalities by education between 1986 and 2005. The Hungarian Case • Katalin Kovács, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest ; László Hablicsek, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

The graying periphery - aging and community development in Romania and Bulgaria • Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Kansas State University ; Cristina Bradatan, Texas Tech University

Changes in health deterioration among participants of the Framingham Heart Study from the 1960s to the 1990s • Alexander Kulminski, Duke University ; Konstantin G. Arbeev, Duke University ; Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Duke University ; Irina V. Culminskaya, Duke University ; Kenneth C. Land, Duke University ; Anatoliy I. Yashin, Duke University

Children and divorce in Flanders (Belgium): differentials according to the country of origin • Edith Lodewijckx, Research Centre of the Flemish Government

“A somewhat different journey” Living with Down Syndrome: the transition to adult life for persons with Down Syndrome • Lisbeth Trille G. Loft, Brown University ; Dennis Hogan, Brown University

Social networks and family support of elderly people in Spain • Laura Lorenzo, University Hospital La Paz

Fertility trends on the second demographic transition in Portugal • Maria Magalhaes, Statistics Portugal ; Edviges Coelho, Statistics Portugal ; Jorge Bravo, University of Evora

The first cohabiting union and the timing of first births. A comparison between France and Hungary. • Zsuzsanna Stefan-Makay, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

The ideal and de facto timetable for transition to adulthood in Europe: A comparative view from the ESS • Teresa Martin Garcia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ; Teresa Castro Martin, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Repartnering after marital dissolution: does the context play a role? • Silvia Meggiolaro, Università di Padova ; Fausta Ongaro, Università di Padova

Demographic transition and ageing in the ECO countries • Amir Houshang Mehryar, Regional Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific ; Nader Motie Haghshenas, Population Studies and Research Center in Asia and the Pacific

Socio-demographic factors, infertility experiences and infertility treatments in Finland • Anneli Miettinen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki ; Pirjo Paajanen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki

Labour insertion in Spain: a view from the "Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales". • Pau Miret Gamundi, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; José Ramón Aguín Ferradás, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Female height and union formation in the developing World • Christiaan Monden, Tilburg University ; Jeroen Smits, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Values of children and the life course: a Polish case • Monika Mynarska, Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University

Gender gap in European families • Catia Nicodemo, Tor Vergata University

Extent of adolescents’ knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Nigeria: implications for development • Chinyere C. P. Nnorom, University of Lagos ; Olufunlayo O. Bammeke, University of Lagos

The socio-economic effects of ageing on intergenerational relations between the young and old people in a Yoruba Community in Southwestern Nigeria • Mustapha m.o Opatola, Obafemi Awolowo University ; Ojo M Agunbiade, Obafemi Awolowo University

Preferring cohabitation • Pirjo Paajanen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki ; Anneli Miettinen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki

Material and political dimensions analysis of the legal exclusion in the social protection in health • Mauricio Padrón Innamorato, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ; Patricia Román Reyes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Estimating the contribution of demographic factors to the demographic ageing in Galicia (Spain): retroprojection and standardized age methods • Antía Pérez Caramés, Universidade da Coruña

Fertility pattern among working women in formal and informal sector • Amita Pradhan, Tribhuvan University

Extent of marriage break-up and remarriages in India: revelation from Indian census and survey data • Ravi Prakash, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Sulabha Parasuraman, International Institute for Population Sciences

Unraveling the changing dynamics of mate selection in 21st century: A content analysis in Indian perspective • Ravi Prakash, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Sulabha Parasuraman, International Institute for Population Sciences

Involuntary childlessness: an exploratory study of men’s perspective on infertility • Sucharita Pujari, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Sayeed Unisa, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

The effect of education on second births in Russia • Dorothea Rieck, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The impact of policies influencing the demography of age structured populations: the case of Academies of Science • Fernando Riosmena, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography ; Maria E. Winkler-Dworak, Vienna Institute of Demography ; Regina Fuchs, Vienna Institute of Demography and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Recent marital trends in Georgia • Tamar Shinjiashvili, Institute of Demography and Sociology

The life cycle in the Romanian socio-economic context. Temporal differences • Maria Simion, Population Research Center ‘Vladimir Trebici’,

The situation of the aged people in Benin • Fortuné Sossa, Université Catholique de Louvain ; Mêmounath Zounon

Trends in fertility in Romania. Case-study in Bihor County • Simona Stanciu, University of Oradea, Romania

Relationship between poverty and material hardship of the elderly in the European Union • Nada Stropnik, Institute for Economic Research, Slovenia ; Natasa Kump, Institute for Economic Research, Slovenia

Interhousehold financial and care transfers. practices versus norms and attitudes towards delivering and receiving care • Marta Styrc, Warsaw School of Economics ; Izabela Grabowska, Warsaw School of Economics

The state of ageing and health situation in Kerala • Balasubramanian Subramanian Vinayagam, University of Kerala ; Mohanachandran P. Nair, University of Kerala

Infertility differentials and its socio-cultural consequences in Africa • Tayebeh (Sahel) Taherianfard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Why postdivorce fathers do not have contact to their children. A case study from Austria • Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve, University of Vienna ; Markus Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology

Two-home family situations of children and adults: observation and consequences for describing family patterns in France • Laurent Toulemon, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Sophie Pennec, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Recent shift towards higher fertility in Poland – short term change or a long term trend? • Krzysztof Tymicki, Warsaw School of Economics

Old and alone? Projecting the future family situation of German elderly using SOCSIM • Harald Wilkoszewski, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Causal analysis of time to first birth and first marriage in Turkey • Elif Yiğit, Hacettepe University

The relation between women’s status and demographic and health surveys: the case of Turkey • Ilknur Yuksel, Hacettepe University ; Hande Tunckanat, Hacettepe University