A study based on the Trajectories and Origins 2 survey reveals that educational inequalities between the descendants of immigrants and the majority population in France do not disappear completely after three generations.
Sexual minorities are more visible and more socially recognized in France today. The Envie survey led at INED shows an increase in the number of young people identifying as gay or bisexual.
La massification scolaire a entraîné un développement des mises en couple durant les études, en particulier pour les premières relations. Les couples formés dans ce contexte se révèlent généralement plus homogames, c’est-à-dire proches en termes de diplôme et de profession, que les autres.
What toys do boys and girls prefer at age two? Do children’s play activities reflect family or social influences? INED explore the role of siblings, parents, and social background in children’s gendered play.
With the rise in number of dual-earner couples and higher female educational levels, couples in which women earn more than their partners are increasingly frequent.
Mothers who share physical child custody with the child(ren)’s father after divorce or legal dissolution of their civil union are more likely to be working than mothers with residential custody
Angèle Jannot, a PHD student at INED, questions the influence of income and degree levels on wealth inequalities within parental couples.
La situation des femmes sur le marché du travail a connu une évolution radicale ces 50 dernières années
differences between male and female married couples
Objets de débat, les sites et les applications de rencontres sont accusés de rien de moins que d’avoir tué l’amour. Ces critiques illustrent la consternation et la réprobation suscitées par ce nouveau mode de rencontres. Sont-elles seulement fondées ?
For the 70th anniversary of its founding, the journal Population has been republishing articles from its 1946 issues, each commented upon by present-day researchers.
By 2050 in China and India, the number of single men seeking to marry is expected to exceed the number of eligible women by over 50%. This suggests the degree of marriage market saturation.
At 17 and a half (17.7, half of young people in France have already had sexual relations. Boys continue to have their first sexual experience earlier in life than girls, but only by a few months.
70% of women in a couple at age 60 will experience widowhood, for an average of 13 years. This period amounts to nearly half of their remaining lifetimes, with considerable disparities by standard of living.
1.9 billion women on earth are of reproductive age, yet only half use contraception. What explains this difference?
This month’s edition of Population & Societies features an original study of 10-year-olds’ participation in domestic chores. Based on data from the Elfe cohort of children, it finds that nine out of ten children lend a hand with tasks such as setting and clearing the table or looking after family pets, but also reveals significant disparities between boys and girls by family type and social background.
Research has been increasingly attentive in recent years to sexual violence in the lives of gay and bisexual men. However, those studies have focused mainly on sexual abuse in childhood, overlooking violence in adulthood in these male sexual minority groups, as well as their diverse ways of life, the varied types of violence undergone, and the situations and contexts in which it is experienced.
What does the term “complex households” cover? What proportion of households in French Polynesia are “complex”?
Since 2000, 31 countries on every continent have passed legislation granting same-sex couples the right to marry. Australia was the 27th in 2017.
Generally speaking, couples tend to synchronize their sleep: the members of 4 out of 5 couples go to bed and get up at the same times. The sleep of retired couples, non-working couples under age 60, and relatively well-off working couples is fairly synchronized whereas relatively disadvantaged working couples’ sleep is desynchronized.
The student population is a privileged target in terms of prevention but also in terms of information on consent.
How do men and women divide domestic work since the introduction of the 35-hour reform?
Researchers have used ELFE study data (French longitudinal study of children) to examine the possible effects of paternity leave on partners’ sharing of parenting and domestic tasks.
This study, published in Population (2017-3) and based on the 2011 Families and Housing Survey.
Marriage has changed since the 1980s, as attested by the rise in cohabitation outside marriage: in 2011, nearly one in four couples in France were not married.
Heirs and heiresses often marry each other in France, finds a study published in the journal “Population.” Balzac’s Rastignac would have little chance of marrying a rich heiress today.
China, the world’s largest country in terms of population, is now a predominant player on the international economic and geopolitical stage.
INED researchers Milan Bouchet-Valat and Laurent Toulemon draw on new data from the ERFI 2* survey to shed light on this decrease in the desired number of children in France in recent decades.
Publication on the results of INED statistical study :ENVIE (2022-2023) on sexuality and intimate relationships among young adults.
Depuis quelques décennies, la plupart des pays européens connaissent des niveaux de divorces et séparations élevés. Existe-t-il un lien entre chômage et instabilité des couples ? Ce travail de recherche montre que le chômage des hommes augmente systématiquement le risque de séparation alors que celui des femmes a moins d’incidence sur la stabilité du couple.
Do stepfathers and stepmothers play the same roles in the lives of their partner’s children? Does the amount of time stepchildren spend in the household affect the degree of involvement of their stepfather or stepmother?
Using data from the joint INED-INSEE “Parcours individuels et conjugaux” survey, researchers Wilfried Rault and Arnaud Régnier-Loilier compared the time it takes individuals in France to indicate their wedding date or the date they formalized their civil union by respondent’s sex; they also studied the individual and social meanings people associate with these events.
Si l’écart entre hommes et femmes diminue, cela résulte principalement d’une réduction du temps consacré par les femmes aux tâches ménagères.
With other variables controlled for, attending a crèche positively affects language acquisition, while having little effect on motor skill development or behavior.
The "Longitudinal study on access to autonomy after a placement" makes it possible for the first time in France to measure the living conditions of young people in care at the end of their care.
En l’espace de quelques années, le nombre de Pacs a augmenté au point de se rapprocher du nombre annuel de mariages. Wilfried Rault, chercheur à l’Ined, nous éclaire sur les grandes évolutions du Pacs depuis 20 ans.
Access to abortion around the world is highly unequal. In African and Latin American countries access may be restricted to particular causes of pregnancy or totally outlawed.
The ELFE study centres on childhood at this stage, then it is natural to have them communicate directly through computer games, an appropriate medium for their age and generation.
We commonly encounter two opposed discourses on love, Michel Bozon takes quite a different perspective.
Boys reach puberty at around 15 years—later than girls, who usually begin menstruating around age 13.
Since the law no. 2002-304 of 4 March 2002 applicable to children born since January 2005, parents can now choose between four options for their child’s family name
Baisse des naissances, croissance portée par les migrations, mobilités résidentielles, la chronique de Conjoncture de l'Ined
Natural increase – the difference between births and deaths – is falling and will become negative in 2027; net migration is now the main driver of french population growth. Until when will this dynamic offset the decline in births?
Comme chaque année, la revue Population publie un article consacré à l’évolution démographique récente de la France. L’année 2023, la plus récente disponible, est marquée par un vieillissement de la population et un ralentissement de l’accroissement démographique, en lien avec la baisse du nombre de naissances.
Malgré leur remboursement, les femmes ayant de plus faibles revenus utilisent moins de contraceptifs que les autres
7 in 10 couples treated by IVF achieve parenthood, but not always through medical treatment.
Achieving parenthood through IVF remains difficult: 1 in 4 couples discontinue treatment after their first attempt (cycle).
The student population is a privileged target in terms of prevention but also in terms of information on consent.
Access to abortion around the world is highly unequal. In African and Latin American countries access may be restricted to particular causes of pregnancy or totally outlawed.
Becoming a parent while studying thus seems socially unthinkable, and the French educational system today does not really take account the fact that some students are parents.
In France, first menstruation or "menarche" occurs at around age 13. According to a survey conducted in 1994, half of all girls had already started menstruating at age 13. Most girls (9 out of 10) have their first period between ages 11 and 14.
China, the world’s largest country in terms of population, is now a predominant player on the international economic and geopolitical stage.
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
INED researchers Milan Bouchet-Valat and Laurent Toulemon draw on new data from the ERFI 2* survey to shed light on this decrease in the desired number of children in France in recent decades.
On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the Institut National d’Études Demographiques or INED (French Institute for Demographic Studies) presents a study of changes in French perceptions of population dynamics.
En 2022, l’avortement a pu être davantage mobilisé dans une période possiblement jugée peu propice à la décision d’accueillir un enfant
After rising in France in the years 2016-2019—230,000 abortions in 2019—induced abortions fell to slightly under 220,000 in 2020 (207,000 of them in metropolitan France), a decrease of 4% directly due to the health crisis.
Using data from the French national health insurance system now available to researchers, Khaoula Ben Messaoud, who has just defended her doctoral thesis, INED researcher Elise de La Rochebrochard, and INSERM epidemiologist Jean Bouyer were able to measure annual infertility treatment use in France.
In an article published in Population 2020-1, Nitzan Peri-Rotem analyses individual interactions between two major fertility determinants: education and religiosity or religious affiliation.
What metro line(s) show(s) the highest fertility rate in 2012 and the highest average age of mothers at baby’s birth?
A study by John Tomkinson, former PhD student at INED.
In 2014, about 56 millions abortions were performed accross the world. Slightly under half were high-risk abortions.
The ECAF survey (Emergency Contraception in Africa) was conducted in 2006-2007 in three countries of West Africa-Senegal and Burkina Faso (French-speaking) and Ghana (English-speaking)-and the North African country of Morocco (French-speaking)
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
1.9 billion women on earth are of reproductive age, yet only half use contraception. What explains this difference?
The Greater Caribbean [Grande Caraïbe in French], comprises forty distinct geopolitical territories, including an archipelago of islands in the Caribbean Sea—two of which are French overseas territories (Martinique and Guadeloupe)—and a group of continental Central and South American countries that includes the French overseas territory of French Guiana. In 2020, the population of the Greater Caribbean was estimated at 301 million, with an average annual growth rate of 1.2% during the preceding 20 years. Over 80% of those inhabitants lived in Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and Guatemala.
En 2021, l’âge moyen à la parentalité est de près de trois ans plus élevé chez les hommes
The fact that women have their first child at later ages does not account for lower fertility at the country level.
Consacrée à l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara (47 pays, 1,1 milliard d’habitants en 2020), la chronique parue en 2020 dans la revue Population 2020 2-3 propose à la fois une synthèse approfondie des grands changements sociodémographiques et sanitaires survenus dans la région entre 2000 et 2020 et un bilan statistique rassemblant les données récentes les plus fiables sur chaque pays.
"Premiers cris, premières nourritures" is an international-scale study of breastfeeding and weaning practices through the ages, from prehistory to the twenty-first century.
Fifty years ago, on 19 December 1967, in response to strong mobilization by the French Family Planning Movement, the parliamentarian Lucien Neuwirth persuaded the National Assembly to pass a law authorizing the sale and use of contraception methods in France.
Des différences d’âge dans les comportements de fécondité apparaissent entre hommes et femmes
On average, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. However, in China, India and several other Asian and Caucasian countries, the proportion of newborn boys is abnormally high because couples practice sex-selective abortion.
The number of twin births in France has almost doubled in the last 40 years. Why? What are the effects?
Since the law no. 2002-304 of 4 March 2002 applicable to children born since January 2005, parents can now choose between four options for their child’s family name
In France, many people in paid work also look after children or elderly relatives, and these combined roles may be difficult to reconcile.The 2024 Families and Employers survey
While life expectancy is rising and mortality among the elderly is falling, France is experiencing a worrying stagnation in infant mortality.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in excess mortality throughout Europe. A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, provides the first detailed analysis of regional disparities in excess mortality in Europe in the pandemic years 2020 and 2021.
En 2022, l’avortement a pu être davantage mobilisé dans une période possiblement jugée peu propice à la décision d’accueillir un enfant
The excess mortality observed from March 18 to May 19, 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, was much higher among France’s foreign-born population groups than in the French-born population.
Consumption varies greatly depending on the family configuration
The research, led by Imperial College London and published in the journal Nature Medicine, analysed weekly death data from 21 industrialised countries between mid-February and end of May 2020.
The first study on mortality among second-generation immigrants in France reveals a large amount of excess mortality among North African-origin males
In 2011, 80% of persons aged 60 or older and at least partially dependent receive informal support from a family member.
The project about “Mortality among immigrants in France” was developed as part of a partnership between INED and the Population Study Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). It is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the period 2015-2019.
In France, suicide is seven times more frequent among prisoners than in the general population. Which inmates are most vulnerable?
According to UNAIDS estimates for the year 2012, 35.3 million persons are infected with the HIV virus worldwide and there were 2.3 million new infections and 1.6 million deaths that year.
The question of life expectancy gains is a controversial one for scientists. Researchers estimated life expectancy for the generations born between 1939 to 2000 using several models. Regardless of method used, the authors’ conclusion is the same: life expectancy progress has slowed considerably.
The Greater Caribbean [Grande Caraïbe in French], comprises forty distinct geopolitical territories, including an archipelago of islands in the Caribbean Sea—two of which are French overseas territories (Martinique and Guadeloupe)—and a group of continental Central and South American countries that includes the French overseas territory of French Guiana. In 2020, the population of the Greater Caribbean was estimated at 301 million, with an average annual growth rate of 1.2% during the preceding 20 years. Over 80% of those inhabitants lived in Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and Guatemala.
The increase in the number of centenarians since the end of the Second World War has been spectacular. From above 1,000 in France in 1970, their number grew to over 8,000 in 2000, and over 31,000 on 1 January 2024. Assuming that current mortality trends continue, INSEE projects that there will be more than 200,000 centenarians in France in 2070.
Malgré leur remboursement, les femmes ayant de plus faibles revenus utilisent moins de contraceptifs que les autres
En France, des disparités d’espérance de vie sans incapacité sont observées dans les territoires.
Using data from the French national health insurance system now available to researchers, Khaoula Ben Messaoud, who has just defended her doctoral thesis, INED researcher Elise de La Rochebrochard, and INSERM epidemiologist Jean Bouyer were able to measure annual infertility treatment use in France.
The department of Seine-Saint-Denis saw particularly high rates of excess mortality due or related to COVID-19 compared to the rest of metropolitan France.
No study has yet approached the question of how those health burdens are distributed across the different social strata of a single African city.
In an article published in Population (2017-3), Dominique Tabutin and Bruno Masquelier assess mortality trends since 1990.
Mortality fell considerably in the 20th century in western countries, but the decrease was neither regular nor continuous.
In the past, it was very common for babies to die before their first birthday. Today infant mortality in France is very low. In 2013, fewer than four newborns (3,5) in 1,000 died before the age of one.
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.
Natural increase – the difference between births and deaths – is falling and will become negative in 2027; net migration is now the main driver of french population growth. Until when will this dynamic offset the decline in births?
Comme chaque année, la revue Population publie un article consacré à l’évolution démographique récente de la France. L’année 2023, la plus récente disponible, est marquée par un vieillissement de la population et un ralentissement de l’accroissement démographique, en lien avec la baisse du nombre de naissances.
What are the impacts of remote working on mental health and work-life balance? While there are several advantages to remote working, it can also have adverse effects on well-being, especially mental health.
Each country set up its own counting system for Covid-19 mortality , which in turn evolved as the epidemic wore on, making it difficult to compare the mortality differences observed over time and space.
Consacrée à l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara (47 pays, 1,1 milliard d’habitants en 2020), la chronique parue en 2020 dans la revue Population 2020 2-3 propose à la fois une synthèse approfondie des grands changements sociodémographiques et sanitaires survenus dans la région entre 2000 et 2020 et un bilan statistique rassemblant les données récentes les plus fiables sur chaque pays.
La mortalité pour les principaux types de cancers évolue favorablement en France, mais à des rythmes très variés selon la localisation organique et selon le sexe.
Le numéro 3 de la revue Population de 2018 présente, dans son avant-propos, une analyse des inégalités de temps de survie chez les soldats "Morts pour la France" durant la Grande Guerre
Silicosis can only progress at fast pace, in relationship with the industrialization of emerging countries.
Overview and Current Knowledge
The mean length of life has more than tripled in France over the last two and a half centuries, from 25 years in 1740 to more than 80 years today.
A study based on the Trajectories and Origins 2 survey reveals that educational inequalities between the descendants of immigrants and the majority population in France do not disappear completely after three generations.
Thirty-five years after the last major national survey on relations between neighbors in France (INED/INSEE “Contacts” survey, 1983), a new survey, entitled “Mon quartier, mes voisins” [My neighborhood, my neighbors], has studied those relations at different scales and documented individuals’ social integration at local (the immediate neighborhood) and extra-local (outside the neighborhood) levels.
The excess mortality observed from March 18 to May 19, 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, was much higher among France’s foreign-born population groups than in the French-born population.
The first study on mortality among second-generation immigrants in France reveals a large amount of excess mortality among North African-origin males
The project about “Mortality among immigrants in France” was developed as part of a partnership between INED and the Population Study Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). It is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the period 2015-2019.
The immigrant population of metropolitan France -that is, persons born non-French outside France-has been predominantly female for the last few years.
Do siblings’ migration pathways influence an individual’s own migration path? Do individual French overseas department (DOM) residents turn to selective pro-migration mobility assistance programs (or not) in the same way their siblings may have?
Drawing on detailed data from France’s 1999 and 2015 population censuses, Julie Fromentin, a former PhD student at INED, analyzed how the composition of the immigrant population in rural and peri-urban areas of metropolitan France and in the country’s small towns evolved over that period.
Nearly half of women and slightly over a third of men aged 25 to 29 have a higher education degree
Mathieu Ichou’s analysis of the academic performances of immigrant’s children, who in France account for nearly one-fourth of pupils, gives us a new sociological perspective on this fundamental social concern.
It is frequently claimed that more and more migrations will result from environmental changes caused by global warming.
For a study of North-to-South (rather than South-to-North) migration, social geography researchers Jordan Pinel and Brenda Le Bigot conducted two qualitative surveys with French retirees living in the Moroccan region of Souss-Massa (Agadir and Tiznit).
Très concentrée géographiquement, très féminine, la population d'immigrants chinois en France est en grande partie constituée d'étudiants.
The department of Seine-Saint-Denis saw particularly high rates of excess mortality due or related to COVID-19 compared to the rest of metropolitan France.
In April and May of 2015, the regional Île-de-France discrimination monitoring office together with INED and the iPSOS polling institute surveyed 2,500 people on their perceptions and experiences of discrimination.
French law permits dual nationality and does not require foreigners who obtain French nationality to give up their original one.
Baisse des naissances, croissance portée par les migrations, mobilités résidentielles, la chronique de Conjoncture de l'Ined
Do stepfathers and stepmothers play the same roles in the lives of their partner’s children? Does the amount of time stepchildren spend in the household affect the degree of involvement of their stepfather or stepmother?
Drawing on detailed data from France’s 1999 and 2015 population censuses, Julie Fromentin, a former PhD student at INED, analyzed how the composition of the immigrant population in rural and peri-urban areas of metropolitan France and in the country’s small towns evolved over that period.
Drawing on data from the ELFE cohort study data (French Longitudinal Study of Children), INED researchers Marion Leturcq and Lidia Panico, together with Barbara Castillo Rico, who holds a PhD in economics, have called into question how early childhood poverty is measured using new indicators that adopt the child’s perspective.
Chaque année, plusieurs centaines de milliers d'élèves de Terminale passent le bac. Devenu un véritable rite de passage national, le bac concerne plus des trois quart d'une génération mais n'est pas un rite égalitaire.
Paris still has a certain amount of dilapidated, unhealthy housing
On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the Institut National d’Études Demographiques or INED (French Institute for Demographic Studies) presents a study of changes in French perceptions of population dynamics.
Thirty-five years after the last major national survey on relations between neighbors in France (INED/INSEE “Contacts” survey, 1983), a new survey, entitled “Mon quartier, mes voisins” [My neighborhood, my neighbors], has studied those relations at different scales and documented individuals’ social integration at local (the immediate neighborhood) and extra-local (outside the neighborhood) levels.
Une enquête sur le personnel de la recherche française face au changement climatique
Quels impacts le développement du maillage de transport a-t-il eus sur les trajectoires géographiques des générations nées entre 1911 et 1950 et sur la redistribution spatiale des différents groupes sociaux ? Dans quelle mesure, les différentes générations et classes sociales ont-elles contribué aux divisions sociales de l’espace francilien que l’on observe au début des années 2000 ?
Paris has 16 free public bathing facilities, for a total of 500 private individual showers
Nearly six in ten households own their home in France. Homeownership rose considerably after World War II, then came to a standstill in the mid-1980s. Today, an increasing share of the population is finding it hard to buy a home.
For a study of North-to-South (rather than South-to-North) migration, social geography researchers Jordan Pinel and Brenda Le Bigot conducted two qualitative surveys with French retirees living in the Moroccan region of Souss-Massa (Agadir and Tiznit).
What does the term “complex households” cover? What proportion of households in French Polynesia are “complex”?
Si les jeunes entrent dans le dispositif à des âges très variés, tous doivent en revanche en sortir à 18 ans, âge de fin de la prise en charge légale, ou à 21 ans au plus tard s’ils obtiennent un contrat jeune majeur.
Drawing on INSEE’s Housing surveys, the authors analyze growing disparities in first home purchases among young households (couples aged 25-44) over the long period from 1973 to 2013 in metropolitan France.
It is frequently claimed that more and more migrations will result from environmental changes caused by global warming.
It is difficult to count people who have no home, especially if they have no place of shelter at all and are sleeping in the street. To learn more about them, INSEE and INED conducted several surveys with users of shelters and free meal services. The surveys have found a considerable increase in the number of homeless in France since 2001.
In France, many people in paid work also look after children or elderly relatives, and these combined roles may be difficult to reconcile.The 2024 Families and Employers survey
This month’s edition of Population & Societies features an original study of 10-year-olds’ participation in domestic chores. Based on data from the Elfe cohort of children, it finds that nine out of ten children lend a hand with tasks such as setting and clearing the table or looking after family pets, but also reveals significant disparities between boys and girls by family type and social background.
Research has been increasingly attentive in recent years to sexual violence in the lives of gay and bisexual men. However, those studies have focused mainly on sexual abuse in childhood, overlooking violence in adulthood in these male sexual minority groups, as well as their diverse ways of life, the varied types of violence undergone, and the situations and contexts in which it is experienced.
What are the impacts of remote working on mental health and work-life balance? While there are several advantages to remote working, it can also have adverse effects on well-being, especially mental health.
The ELFE study (French Longitudinal Study of Children) has enabled researchers to determine for the first time the precise age at which that gap appears
Nearly half of women and slightly over a third of men aged 25 to 29 have a higher education degree
La situation des femmes sur le marché du travail a connu une évolution radicale ces 50 dernières années
Quel dialogue possible entre les entreprises et les chercheurs ? L’Ined a noué des partenariats avec des entreprises pour saisir les mécanismes de production des inégalités professionnelles entre femmes et hommes.
Mortality fell considerably in the 20th century in western countries, but the decrease was neither regular nor continuous.
Twenty years after the last international conference on women, held in Beijing in 1995, has women’s overall situation really improved? The “Atlas Mondial des Femmes” brings to light “paradoxes of emancipation” in such diverse areas as education, health, the economy, politics and sexuality. In addition to marked geographical disparities, many advances in the direction of equality are found to be fragile, incomplete or paradoxical.
China, the world’s largest country in terms of population, is now a predominant player on the international economic and geopolitical stage.
Sexual minorities are more visible and more socially recognized in France today. The Envie survey led at INED shows an increase in the number of young people identifying as gay or bisexual.
Depuis quelques décennies, la plupart des pays européens connaissent des niveaux de divorces et séparations élevés. Existe-t-il un lien entre chômage et instabilité des couples ? Ce travail de recherche montre que le chômage des hommes augmente systématiquement le risque de séparation alors que celui des femmes a moins d’incidence sur la stabilité du couple.
Do stepfathers and stepmothers play the same roles in the lives of their partner’s children? Does the amount of time stepchildren spend in the household affect the degree of involvement of their stepfather or stepmother?
En 2021, l’âge moyen à la parentalité est de près de trois ans plus élevé chez les hommes
The survey provides first-time data on violence experienced within the family circle as defined below and in public places by persons identifying as LGB
Angèle Jannot, a PHD student at INED, questions the influence of income and degree levels on wealth inequalities within parental couples.
differences between male and female married couples
This study, published in Population (2017-3) and based on the 2011 Families and Housing Survey.
Overview and Current Knowledge
At 17 and a half (17.7, half of young people in France have already had sexual relations. Boys continue to have their first sexual experience earlier in life than girls, but only by a few months.
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)
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, le patrimoine s’est individualisé en France, du fait à la fois de la part croissante du patrimoine détenu par les célibataires et de l’individualisation du patrimoine au sein des couples. Les inégalités de patrimoine sont sous-estimées parce qu’elles ne tiennent pas compte des inégalités de patrimoine au sein des ménages, en particulier l’écart de patrimoine entre les femmes et les hommes.
What toys do boys and girls prefer at age two? Do children’s play activities reflect family or social influences? INED explore the role of siblings, parents, and social background in children’s gendered play.
With the rise in number of dual-earner couples and higher female educational levels, couples in which women earn more than their partners are increasingly frequent.
Mothers who share physical child custody with the child(ren)’s father after divorce or legal dissolution of their civil union are more likely to be working than mothers with residential custody
Si l’écart entre hommes et femmes diminue, cela résulte principalement d’une réduction du temps consacré par les femmes aux tâches ménagères.
Carole Bonnet, directrice de recherche à l’Ined, Dominique Meurs, et Benoit Rapoport, chercheurs associés à l’Ined, se sont intéressés aux inégalités selon le secteur public ou privé et le niveau de pensions, celles-ci ayant jusqu’alors fait l’objet de moins d’attention.
How do men and women divide domestic work since the introduction of the 35-hour reform?
Defined as “a hierarchically ordered bi-categorization of the sexes (men/women) and the values and representations associated with them (masculine/feminine)” (Bereni et al. 2012), gender is an increasingly high-profile subject in today’s academic world as well as in the media, politics, civil society and community organizations.
By 2050 in China and India, the number of single men seeking to marry is expected to exceed the number of eligible women by over 50%. This suggests the degree of marriage market saturation.
On average, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. However, in China, India and several other Asian and Caucasian countries, the proportion of newborn boys is abnormally high because couples practice sex-selective abortion.
Baisse des naissances, croissance portée par les migrations, mobilités résidentielles, la chronique de Conjoncture de l'Ined
The question of life expectancy gains is a controversial one for scientists. Researchers estimated life expectancy for the generations born between 1939 to 2000 using several models. Regardless of method used, the authors’ conclusion is the same: life expectancy progress has slowed considerably.
For a study of North-to-South (rather than South-to-North) migration, social geography researchers Jordan Pinel and Brenda Le Bigot conducted two qualitative surveys with French retirees living in the Moroccan region of Souss-Massa (Agadir and Tiznit).
The ELFE study (French Longitudinal Study of Children) has enabled researchers to determine for the first time the precise age at which that gap appears
Carole Bonnet, directrice de recherche à l’Ined, Dominique Meurs, et Benoit Rapoport, chercheurs associés à l’Ined, se sont intéressés aux inégalités selon le secteur public ou privé et le niveau de pensions, celles-ci ayant jusqu’alors fait l’objet de moins d’attention.
Models of care for older persons who have lost or are in the process of losing their autonomy vary widely from one region to another. At the European Union scale, southern countries show stronger family solidarity than northern ones (Peyrache and Ogg 2017); within France, institutional care solutions are more frequently used in Brittany and the Pays-de-la Loire than elsewhere (Trabut and Gaymu 2016).
In 2011, 80% of persons aged 60 or older and at least partially dependent receive informal support from a family member.
The ELFE study centres on childhood at this stage, then it is natural to have them communicate directly through computer games, an appropriate medium for their age and generation.
Boys reach puberty at around 15 years—later than girls, who usually begin menstruating around age 13.
China, the world’s largest country in terms of population, is now a predominant player on the international economic and geopolitical stage.
70% of women in a couple at age 60 will experience widowhood, for an average of 13 years. This period amounts to nearly half of their remaining lifetimes, with considerable disparities by standard of living.
On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the Institut National d’Études Demographiques or INED (French Institute for Demographic Studies) presents a study of changes in French perceptions of population dynamics.
The increase in the number of centenarians since the end of the Second World War has been spectacular. From above 1,000 in France in 1970, their number grew to over 8,000 in 2000, and over 31,000 on 1 January 2024. Assuming that current mortality trends continue, INSEE projects that there will be more than 200,000 centenarians in France in 2070.
Developed countries’ populations are aging inexorably, creating new equilibria that societies have to adapt to.
In a context of mass higher education and successive reforms, the training, occupational futures, and living conditions of students constitute major issues that require detailed analysis. It is crucial to study connections between student living conditions, transition to adulthood, and trajectories.
Longevity, ageing and the situations of older persons are major social, health, quality-of-life and public policy issues in today’s society, issues that require a multi-disciplinary human and social sciences (HHS) approach if we are to grasp how the questions they raise are interrelated.
Mortality fell considerably in the 20th century in western countries, but the decrease was neither regular nor continuous.
In France, first menstruation or "menarche" occurs at around age 13. According to a survey conducted in 1994, half of all girls had already started menstruating at age 13. Most girls (9 out of 10) have their first period between ages 11 and 14.
When they are born, certain children already have a savings account or product in their name. Others have none upon reaching adulthood.
The Greater Caribbean [Grande Caraïbe in French], comprises forty distinct geopolitical territories, including an archipelago of islands in the Caribbean Sea—two of which are French overseas territories (Martinique and Guadeloupe)—and a group of continental Central and South American countries that includes the French overseas territory of French Guiana. In 2020, the population of the Greater Caribbean was estimated at 301 million, with an average annual growth rate of 1.2% during the preceding 20 years. Over 80% of those inhabitants lived in Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and Guatemala.
The recent increase in the proportion of very old people in the French population has not led to as great an increase in institutional LTC as was anticipated.
With other variables controlled for, attending a crèche positively affects language acquisition, while having little effect on motor skill development or behavior.
The "Longitudinal study on access to autonomy after a placement" makes it possible for the first time in France to measure the living conditions of young people in care at the end of their care.
Differences by parents’ socioeconomic milieu may be observed from the child’s earliest years.
Stéphane Carcillo (OECD, Sciences Po), Claire Guichet (CESE, Paris II, CERSA), Bruno Palier (CNRS and Sciences Po) and Olivier Thévenon (OECD and INED) shared their answers to this question at a round table discussion at INED on May 27, the closing event of the Demographic Economy unit research day on transitions to adulthood. The following is a summary of their remarks.
At 17 and a half (17.7, half of young people in France have already had sexual relations. Boys continue to have their first sexual experience earlier in life than girls, but only by a few months.
A study based on the Trajectories and Origins 2 survey reveals that educational inequalities between the descendants of immigrants and the majority population in France do not disappear completely after three generations.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in excess mortality throughout Europe. A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, provides the first detailed analysis of regional disparities in excess mortality in Europe in the pandemic years 2020 and 2021.
A new type of online editing that gives website visitors access a considerable number of accounts collected by researchers in recorded interviews with former Gulag deportees.
In 2020 the world population was at nearly 8 billion. In 1800 it was only 1 billion. And over the last fifty year it has doubled, from 4 billion in 1974. It is expected to keep growing, and could reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. Why is growth expected to continue? Could the world population stabilize in the long term? Might it decrease in the coming decades?
It is frequently claimed that more and more migrations will result from environmental changes caused by global warming.
In 2014, about 56 millions abortions were performed accross the world. Slightly under half were high-risk abortions.
China, the world’s largest country in terms of population, is now a predominant player on the international economic and geopolitical stage.
1.9 billion women on earth are of reproductive age, yet only half use contraception. What explains this difference?
Thirty-five years after the last major national survey on relations between neighbors in France (INED/INSEE “Contacts” survey, 1983), a new survey, entitled “Mon quartier, mes voisins” [My neighborhood, my neighbors], has studied those relations at different scales and documented individuals’ social integration at local (the immediate neighborhood) and extra-local (outside the neighborhood) levels.
Très concentrée géographiquement, très féminine, la population d'immigrants chinois en France est en grande partie constituée d'étudiants.
Consacrée à l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara (47 pays, 1,1 milliard d’habitants en 2020), la chronique parue en 2020 dans la revue Population 2020 2-3 propose à la fois une synthèse approfondie des grands changements sociodémographiques et sanitaires survenus dans la région entre 2000 et 2020 et un bilan statistique rassemblant les données récentes les plus fiables sur chaque pays.
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On average, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. However, in China, India and several other Asian and Caucasian countries, the proportion of newborn boys is abnormally high because couples practice sex-selective abortion.
Since the early 1980s, the demography of Canada and the United States has been quite dynamic.
Comme chaque année, la revue Population publie un article consacré à l’évolution démographique récente de la France. L’année 2023, la plus récente disponible, est marquée par un vieillissement de la population et un ralentissement de l’accroissement démographique, en lien avec la baisse du nombre de naissances.
Alors que certains pays continuent de croître rapidement, d’autres voient leur population diminuer. Dans le même temps, la population mondiale vieillit, l’espérance de vie mondiale continuant à augmenter et la fécondité à baisser. Tels sont les enseignements des dernières estimations et projections de la population mondiale qui viennent d’être publiées par la Division de la population des Nations Unies.
Une enquête sur le personnel de la recherche française face au changement climatique
Authors have the option of submitting their articles in either French or English, to be translated by us and published in both languages.
By 2050 in China and India, the number of single men seeking to marry is expected to exceed the number of eligible women by over 50%. This suggests the degree of marriage market saturation.
According to UNAIDS estimates for the year 2012, 35.3 million persons are infected with the HIV virus worldwide and there were 2.3 million new infections and 1.6 million deaths that year.
The ECAF survey (Emergency Contraception in Africa) was conducted in 2006-2007 in three countries of West Africa-Senegal and Burkina Faso (French-speaking) and Ghana (English-speaking)-and the North African country of Morocco (French-speaking)
