Foreign women account for 12% of births in France, and immigrant women, including naturalized French citizens, 15%. The fertility of foreign women is higher than that of French women (3.3 children versus 1.8 in 2004), but since only a small minority of the population is concerned, the effect on...

Les étrangères contribuent aux naissances de la France dans une proportion de 12 % et les immigrées, qui incluent les étrangères devenues françaises, dans une proportion de 15 %. La fécondité des étrangères est plus élevée que celle des Françaises (3,3 enfants contre 1,8 en 2004),...

[eng] How the French live as neighbors ? . François Héran . Far from being evident, socializing among neighbors is practiced very irregularly. It is more developed in single dwellings than in collective housing and more in a rural than urban environment. Families socialize with neighbors more...

[eng] The heart of the associative network multi-members - In France, one and a half million people are members of at least four associations. This phenomenon of multi-membership explains certain paradoxes in the world of associations, for instance, the fact that, in each association executives...

[fre] Les Français discutent en une semaine avec dix-sept personnes différentes sur des sujets non professionnels. Parents, collègues et amis composent presque à égalité les trois quarts de ce réseau, le reste se partageant entre le voisinage, les associations, les commerçants, les...

A survey of public-sector researchers and academics shows that English is used almost exclusively as the international language of dialogue in the hard sciences, and is also well-established in the humanities and social sciences. English is also the language of choice for publications, meetings...

Our ideas about population have varied continuously over the centuries, as illustrated in the vocabulary changes detected by Ngram Viewer in the vast corpus of books digitized by Google. For example, the French word démographie, first coined in 1855, did not take off until after the Great War,...

Nos idées sur la population n'ont cessé de varier au fil des siècles. En témoigne l'évolution du vocabulaire des ouvrages numérisés en masse par Google, qu'on peut désormais sonder avec Ngram Viewer. Ainsi, « démographie », créé en 1855, ne prend son essor qu'après la Grande...