[fre] La Russie a connu une histoire contemporaine unique, fertile en évolutions politiques et économiques. Plusieurs crises conjoncturelles récentes importantes (1992, 1998) ont eu pour conséquence une chute de grande ampleur des niveaux de vie (division par deux en 1992). Le bilan...

At adult ages x, the force of mortality increases more or less exponentially with age, and the parameter associated with age, ?, can be used to gauge the rate of senescence (ageing) of a generation. The hypothesis has recently been advanced that the rate of senescence at the individual level may...

While interviewers are generally instructed to administer survey questionnaires on a one-to-one basis, a large share of interviews are actually conducted in the partner?s presence, notably when respondents are advanced in age. In the French version of the Generations and Gender Survey (ERFI,...