Demographic situation of Canada and the United-States
Since the early 1980s, the demography of Canada and the United States has been quite dynamic.
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Strength in Numbers
Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-century France
De la famille à l’entourage
The Biographies et Entourage survey [Event histories and contact circle]: an assessment 10 years later
Dual nationality and national identity
French law permits dual nationality and does not require foreigners who obtain French nationality to give up their original one.
Duvillard
Emmanuel-Etienne Duvillard de Durand (1755-1832), a mathematician and the first French actuary, contributed significantly to social mathematics, particularly through his mathematical model of mortality. INED has published the transcription of a previously unknown manuscript that offers a brilliant synthesis of his work in this area.
The ECAF survey
The ECAF survey (Emergency Contraception in Africa) was conducted in 2006-2007 in three countries of West Africa-Senegal and Burkina Faso (French-speaking) and Ghana (English-speaking)-and the North African country of Morocco (French-speaking)
VIRAGE survey
In 2009, the taskforce for assessing French national policy for preventing and combating violence against women (Mission d’Evaluation de la Politique de Prévention et de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes), a body working under the aegis of/a commission of France’s National Assembly, recommended conducting a new survey on violence against women that would modelled be on the national survey on the same issue done in 2000 by the demographic institute of the Université Paris I (ENVEFF)
French end-of-life survey
Although nearly 2 out of 3 people die in hospital, an analysis of trajectories during the last month of life gives a more nuanced picture.
Intended and realized fertility: France and Italy compared
Within Europe, France and Italy stand virtually opposed in terms of fertility: women in France have 2 children on average, as against 1.4 in Italy. The difference is explained in part by the fact that women in Italy have their first child at a later age
Palaeodemography
Palaeodemography is the study of past populations who left little if anything in the way of written material that would tell us about their demographic behaviours.