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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)

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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.

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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

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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.

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France’s twin birth boom

The number of twin births in France has almost doubled in the last 40 years. Why? What are the effects?

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Egypt, an exception in its geographical region

Egypt is one of the few Arab countries not to have really made the demographic transition, despite a fall in mortality. With nearly 79 million inhabitants in 2010, Egypt is currently the most heavily populated Arab country...

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Women Who Give Birth "Secretly"

France is the only Western country, apart from Luxembourg, Italy and the Czech Republic, where the law allows women to request that their identity be kept secret and withheld from their child’s birth certificate

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Women in the immigrant population

The immigrant population of metropolitan France -that is, persons born non-French outside France-has been predominantly female for the last few years.

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2010 population pyramids of France and the European Union

France’s population pyramid for 2010 was shaped by twentieth-century history: a birth deficit during the 1914-1918 war years, the baby boom of 1946-1973, relative birth rate stability for the past 35 years

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A German community in Brazil from the 19th until the 20th century

Drawing on the resources of historical demography, Alain Bideau and Sergio Odilon Nadalin, authors of Une communauté allemande au Brésil: De l’immigration aux contacts culturels, XIXè-XX siècle [A German community in Brazil: from immigration to cultural contact, 19th-20th century] present and analyse the unfolding of a particular process of integration and immigration.