Mortality differentials between French occupations and occupational classes are large and widening. But considerable inequalities also exist within occupational classes by career history. Changes in the labour market and occupational pathways in recent decades ? notably among women ? have...

Cambois (Emmanuelle), Robin? (Jean-Marie), Brouard (Nicolas).- Life expectancies applied to specific statuses: a history of the indicators and the methods of calculation Indicators of life expectancy applied to specific statuses, such as the state of health or professional status, were...

In 2002-2003, the French Health Survey included ? for the third time since 1980 ? a general question on ?limitations or handicaps in daily life?. The responses obtained suggest that the prevalence of disability has fallen far more rapidly in the past decade than in earlier periods. Indeed, the...

The life course survey Biographies et entourage, conducted by INED in 2001, recorded not only the respondents? reports of the factual events in their family, residential and occupational histories but also some subjective elements. The aim was to take into account the way respondents saw their...