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Arnaud Bringé
tells us about INED’s Statistical Methods Service
Corinne Bois and Marie-Noëlle Dufourg
present the Health segment of the ELFE cohort study (Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance)
Is it true that women live longer than men?
Though the health of both men and women has greatly improved throughout the world, that progress has benefited women more than men. In industrialized countries the gap in life expectancy widened until the 1970s. Men’s lag was due in part to dangerous occupations, higher alcohol and tobacco consumption levels than women, and higher risk for road accidents. Men had also ...
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yes
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No
Is it true that deaths outnumber births in Europe?
Since 2012, natural increase in the European Union has been negative (more deaths than births). This is due to a rise in number of deaths as baby-boomers age, and to relatively low fertility rates in Europe. But in 2020-2021, for the first time, the population of Europe fell, meaning that net migration did not compensate for negative natural increase. In 2021, ...
What are the most widely used contraceptive methods across the world?
Across the world, in 2019, of the 1.9 billion women of reproductive age (15-49 years), nearly half (922 million women or their partners) are contraceptive users: 842 million use modern methods of contraception and 80 million use traditional methods. The most commonly used contraceptive methods are, in descending order, female sterilization (24% of women using a contraceptive method), the male condom (21%), ...
How many immigrants are there in France?
In France, demographers classify as "immigrants" all persons of foreign nationality born outside France. They exclude persons born abroad to French parents, such as the children of expatriates. In 2018, there were 6.5 million immigrants living in France—9.7% of the total population (of 67 million). 4.1 million were foreign nationals and 2.4 million, or 37%, had acquired French citizenship. The composition of ...