Until 1999, the census is characterized by the exhaustiveness of the population. From 2004, annual census surveys are conducted on a population sample, withdrawing its exhaustive nature.
Civil register data, including birth, marriage or deaths acts, are held by the municipalities which are responsible of the statistical feedback at a national scale.
Social and fiscal data include the fiscal declaration of natural persons, resident in France.
Companies have to transfer the information about their employees every year, which Insee get as well as their payroll, forming the employees panel.
A general electoral roll is provided in the EDP, which incorporates the electoral lists managed by the municipalities and avoids multiple registrations.
Various family forms are open to different-sex and/or same-sex couples: marriage, registered partnership, formalized cohabitation, informal cohabitation. The level of legal consequences (rights and obligations) of these family forms varies greatly from country to country throughout Europe and it has substantially evolved over the past few decades. Similarly, couples vary greatly in their choices for the different family forms throughout ...
Clara Cortina is lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. Her research interests are focused on current changes in partnership and family dynamics and the implications of family change in multiple domains (demographic trends, social inequality and gender relations). Patrick Festy is an emeritus senior researcher at Ined (National ...
We have collected and organized elements of a comparative statistical dataset on legal recognition of same-sex couples through marriage and various forms of registered partnership. The objective is to determine the frequency of the use that same-sex couples have been making of the possibilities for legal recognition that European countries have introduced for them. The database will be open to international comparisons ...
As products of the European Research Project “Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations” (FP7-SSH-2012-1), we have produced two publications: Cortina, C., & Festy, P. (2014). Identification of same-sex couples and families in censuses, registers and surveys. FamiliesAndSocieties Working Paper 8(2014), www.familiesandsocieties.eu. Cortina, C., & Festy, P. (2014), Comparative database on same-sex partnership ...
