How much time do we spend with other people as we grow old?

A couple of years ago, I posted this chart showing how much time we spend with other people as we grow old. The chart was created by Henrik Lindberg using data from the America Time Use Survey, and the code to recreate this chart in R is available here.

p.s It's my birthday today and birthdays are always a good moment to reflect about life :)

The people who keep us company throughout our life cycle

Henrik Lindberg has put together this nice chart showing the people we spend the most time with throughout out life cycle. The data comes from the America Time Use Survey, and the the code to create this chart in R is available here. Thanks Steve Williams for the pointer.

This might be a good moment to reflect about life.

Window of Opportunity: demographic changes and socioeconomic consequences in Brazil

Window of Opportunity: demographic changes and socioeconomic consequences in Brazil  (I have copied this post from Ricardo Ojima)

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Interactive content from ONS (UK)

We have already posted here some interactive content from The Office for National Statistics - ONS (UK Statistics Authority) - the interactive population pyramids of the United Kingdom.

Now you can look out for more interactive content from ONS here. You'll find animated maps of life expectancy, fertility, mortality, etc. (via @worldmapper RT @theboysmithy)

I'm more interested in this kind of data: Commuter journeys inside Greater London, 2001

[image credit: ONS]

visualizing Life Cycle

Life Cycle is a very important variable to understand demographics, though it's hard to represent it graphically. The Designer Ritwik Dey created an interesting way to visualize his own Life Cyle.

(via informationisbeautiful)