July 01, 2025 | Defo News

Family planning and health of migrants

The new issue (No. 02/2025) of Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, the popular science newsletter with latest research results from demography, has been released.

The Newsletter is available in German only.

"Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand" is a joint publication of the Max Planck Institute for demographic Research (MPIDR), the Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ), the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).

The topics of the new issue are:

CONTRACEPTION

Are you Really Pregnant and not Ready?

Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)

Almost a third of people who don't want children do not use birth control at some point. According to a new study, there are a variety of reasons for this.

MARGINALIZED GROUPS

The Physical Consequences of Social Inequality

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

Migrants are usually healthier than the local population when they arrive in their destination country. However, this "health advantage" quickly disappears.

BIRTH RATE

The Desire to Have Children in Urban and Rural Areas

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)

Researchers have calculated how life expectancy at birth would have developed in 2020 and 2021 in various European regions if it had not been for the pandemic. The result shows a significant east-west divide.

The newsletter is released four times a year and is available electronically and as a printed version and is free of charge.

It's definitely worth taking a look at the newsletter website - the editors have relaunched the site. The site now has many new features such as full-text search in all issues, all articles are tagged with keywords and all graphics are
can be accessed individually.