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Strong segregation in neighborhoods with high unemployment

42% of people living in the 10% of French neighborhoods where unemployment is highest are immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa or Turkey

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One in three women in France has an abortion at some point in her life

Forty years after abortion was legalized in France (Veil Law), fewer women have abortions but repeat abortions are rising

How equal have the sexes become?

Recent demographic studies find substantial inequalities and persistent stereotypes, despite the progress made in the last 40 years

15 years of research at INED’s “Gender” unit

Armelle Andro and Michel Bozon were active in launching INED’s “Demography, Gender and Societies” research unit in 1999. Interview

Task sharing in the home remains unequal

Men take care of the children more than they did 25 years ago but they still do so less than women, say Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz

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The family name given to children born in 2012

Since 2005, parents can now choose between four options for their child’s family name

The majority of immigrants in France are now women

More than half of immigrants living in France are women. They now arrive more often alone than through family reunification

Interactive population maps with complete migration figures

How many immigrants in each country? How are immigrant numbers and proportions evolving in the world and by country? View all the figures

Ageing immigrants in France: what will the situation be in 2028?

By 2028, the population of immigrants over 65 years, measured by country of origin, will have risen for all countries except Italy and Spain

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Unions : cohabitation, pacs, marriage

Today, the couples which decide to live together can choose consensual union, marriage or civil partnership. How many actually live in cohabitation, how many get married, how many are civil partners? Which factors push them to choose one of these forms of unions?

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45% of persons aged 18-50 years in France say they have no religion

In 2008, 45% of persons aged 18-50 years living in metropolitan France stated they had no religion (the largest single share of those questioned). Catholicism has the greatest share of declared followers (43%), far ahead of Islam (8%). The T&O survey has estimated that approximately 4.1 million persons in France identify themselves as Muslims. Being from a Muslim country does not necessarily mean ...

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The population in graphs

An interactive system for comparing countries, mapping curves and viewing change in the population pyramid

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Women’s rights: unfinished and fragile progress

Twenty years after the Beijing international conference on women, what can be said of women’s condition? The Atlas Mondial des Femmes brings to light the “paradoxes of emancipation,” such as fragile or incomplete progress and new forms of inequality. A scientific panorama, illustrated by over 120 maps and computer graphics

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