China Population and Development Studies is an international platform for discourse on population phenomena and development issues.
In this special issue, we are looking for papers on one of the following topics related to any countries in the world: Analyses on past, present and future trends in families, households, living arrangements and the implications; Applications of family household analyses and projections in research on healthy aging, socio-economic planning, social status analyses, policy analyses, children’s education, elderly care needs/costs and other home-based services, big data analyses, market analyses, age-friendly housing, home-based energy-use (such as water, electricity and gas), environment protection, food, furniture, and vehicles, etc.; Household and living arrangement projections at sub-national and county/city levels; Policy analyses related to family households and living arrangements; Research progress in methodology, user-friendly software development and databases for probabilistic projections/analyses of households and living arrangements; Other related topics.