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.
With other variables controlled for, attending a crèche positively affects language acquisition, while having little effect on motor skill development or behavior.
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
In just a few decades, higher education became general in France, and now nearly half of women and slightly over a third of men aged 25 to 29 have a higher education degree. A considerable proportion of young people living in rural areas and small or mid-sized towns “emigrate” to study at universities in large French cities. The sociologists Élie ...
The Biographies et Entourage survey [Event histories and contact circle]: an assessment 10 years later
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
Emmanuel-Etienne Duvillard de Durand (1755-1832), a mathematician and the first French actuary, contributed significantly to social mathematics, particularly through his mathematical model of mortality. INED has published the transcription of a previously unknown manuscript that offers a brilliant synthesis of his work in this area.
Valeria Solesin, one of the persons killed in the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris, was trained as a sociologist and demographer. At the time of her death she was in the last phase of completing her doctoral thesis on contemporary fertility behaviours in Italy and France, with a special focus on the transition from first to second child. The ...
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.
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.
