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Socio-demographic attributes of artisanal small-scale miners and their operations in Ghana
Socio-demographic characteristics of miners have been identified to play an important role in determining the distribution of costs and benefits in...
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Method for capturing demands for housing customisation: balancing value for customers and operations costs
Mass customisation is a business strategy for house building companies to improve value generation and obtain a competitive advantage by offering the...
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Buffer Stock Operations and Well-Being: The Case of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
This study investigates the possible causal relationship between buffer stock operations in Ghanaian agriculture and the well-being of smallholder...
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Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China
This article investigates the interplay between knowledge acquisition and the stepwise migration trajectories of low-skilled Vietnamese workers in...
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Usury vulnerability: measuring and modelling the phenomenon in Italy
Usury has been predominantly studied as an economic or legal phenomenon and only recently has gotten into the spotlight of sociological research....
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Income Differences of Chinese Sub-ethnic Groups in Canada
The study of sub-ethnicity acknowledges that an ethnic group may have diversity despite common cultural roots. It recognizes that historical...
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How socio-spatial aspects of urban space influence social sustainability: a case study
Today’s society is increasingly concerned with the social impacts of sustainability. Social and economic difficulties necessitated a reconsideration...
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Changing Issues in Population Research in India
As a sub-field of sociology, sociology of population deals with the social aspects of five demographic processes: nuptiality, fertility, mortality,...
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Young Farmers and the Dynamics of Agrarian Transition in China
For a transformative country like China that still has a large rural population and significant agricultural sector, the role of young farmers in the...
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Social Policy and Social Work in the Czech Republic: Partners at Fragile Times
The present Czech social policy is a result of long-term historical development. There are a number of influences on its formation. These include the...
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Assessing dissimilarity of employment history information from survey and administrative data using sequence analysis techniques
Life course data is frequently gathered either using retrospective surveys or linking records with administrative data. Yet, each strategy has...
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An exploratory analysis of the spatial variation of malaria cases and associated household socio-economic factors in flood-prone areas of Mbire district, Zimbabwe
Although floods are well known for promoting the transmission of malaria, not much effort has been put to determine the spatial distribution of this...
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Substance Uses and Associated Sociodemographic Factors Among Male Tribes and Non-Tribal Communities of Eastern and North Eastern States in India: An Evidence-Based Study from the National Family Health Survey-5
BackgroundThe study analyzes the association between substance use among scheduled tribe men mostly known for their primitiveness, geographical...
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Commuters’ perception of railway transportation service performance and the effects in Nigeria
This study aimed to examine the perception of commuters on the operational performance of the Nigerian railway transportation system. This extends a...
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The Casualties of War: An Excess Mortality Estimate of Lives Lost in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Who and how many died in the 2020 Karabakh War? With limited evidence provided by authorities, media outlets, and human rights organizations, still...
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Giving Birth While Facing Death: Cesarean Sections and Community Violence in Latin America
Armed conflict and organized crime are known to be linked to numerous negative maternal and neonatal health outcomes, such as stillbirth, low birth...
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Modelling the Spatial Heterogeneity of Female-Male Ratio in West Bengal, India
Gender inequality is mostly studied through the prism of demographic and socio-economic determinants, overlooking the effects of spatial...
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Identifying contextual effective factors on total fertility rate decline in Iran: a qualitative framework-based study
This study was conducted to explain the contextual factors associated with total fertility rate (TFR) decline to help policymakers. A qualitative...
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Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana
Universal access to safe drinking water is essential to population health and well-being, as recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)....
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Disasters and Demographic Change of ‘Single-Industry’ Towns—Decline and Resilience in Morwell, Australia
In 2014, an open-cut coal mine fire burned for 45 days in the small single-industry town of Hazelwood in Victoria (Australia) spreading smoke and ash...