Obtaining appropriate forecasts for the future population is a vital component of public policy analysis for issues ranging from government budgets to pension systems. Traditionally, demographic forecasters rely on a deterministic approach with various scenarios informed by expert opinion. This...

This paper focuses upon the unfolding lives of Overseas Performing Artists and Japanese wives from a barangay in Pangasinan. Their life stories, as told during our interviews conducted in the Philippines and in Japan between 1994 and 2004, were enhanced with information on their families...