Natural increase is the difference between the number of live births and deaths, generally calculated over a year. It is positive when the number of births is higher than the number of deaths and negative when the number of deaths exceeds the number of births.
An operation to count the population of a country. A census is the process of counting every member of a population living in a particular territory at a particular time. All inhabitants fill in a census form and the data is processed to determine the characteristics of the population concerned (sex, age, occupation, housing conditions, place of work or study, etc.). ...
All of the measures explicitly or implicitly taken by the authorities aimed at influencing population size, growth, distribution, or composition. A population policy is a set of measures taken by a State to modify the way its population is changing, either by promoting large families or immigration to increase its size, or by encouraging limitation of births to decrease it. A ...
System of registration of births, deaths and marriages. Records of events in an individual’s life are known as vital records. Events which modify an individual’s vital records (adoption, name change) are recorded in the register of births, along with events which create obligations with respect to others: marriage, divorce, birth, legitimation or recognition of children. Civil registration guarantees the recognition ...
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Population & Societies n° 499, April 2013
Authors: Jean Marie Robine (Inserm), Emmanuelle Cambois (Ined)
Auteur : François HÉRAN L'Ined prévoyait de consacrer le bulletin Population & Sociétés du mois de juin à une enquête sur les langues de travail dans la recherche et l'enseignement supérieur. En raison de l'actualité parlementaire, nous anticipons cette publication en la rendant publique dès aujourd'hui, sous forme d'un fichier pdf. La publication finale sera disponible d'ici quelques jours dans son format habituel. À ...
Author: Arnaud Régnier-Loilier Many fathers rarely see their children after a separation, and some lose touch altogether. How many children are concerned? Analysing data from the French version of the Generations and Gender Survey (Étude des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles, ERFI), Arnaud Régnier-Loilier studies the frequency of this loss of contact between fathers and their children, and the circumstances in which ...
Auteur : François Héran Le 31 mai 2013, Destatis, l'Office fédéral allemand de la statistique, a rendu publics les premiers résultats du recensement réalisé en mai 2011. Surprise : la population allemande compte 1,5 million d'habitants de moins que prévu. En France comme en Allemagne, cette découverte a suscité des commentaires pessimistes : «résultat alarmant», «déclin démographique», «erreur de calcul»... Or ...
Population & Societies n° 502, July-August 2013
Authors: Cris Beauchemin, Catherine Borrel et Corinne Régnard
