Degiovanni Patrick, Deville Jean-Claude, Gubian Alain. ? A Model of the Distribution of Family Size and its Application to the Study of Differential Fertility. The lognormal distribution is fitted to the distribution of family sizes by using three parameters : the proportion of childless...

Deville Jean-Claude. Harmonie Analysis of the Timing of Family Formation in France. Social Inequalities and their Evolution from 1920 to 1960. In 1962 INSEE carried out an inquiry into the fertility of 240,000 women born between 1892 and 1947. The pattern of family formation among a number of...

[eng] Nuptiality and fertility by social and cultural class by Gérard Calot and Jean-Claude Deville . The family survey taken in 1962 permits study of the social, cultural and geographical differentials in age at first marriage, level of pre-marital conceptions and fertility. . Between...

[fre] L'enquête Emploi est considérée comme une référence solide sur la population active, le chômage, les taux d'activité. Ce n'est cependant qu'un sondage : l'enquête ne fournit aucune mesure exacte, mais, simplement, des estimations. Peut-on leur faire confiance? Comment se fait-il...

Surveys of consumption often rest on household records of expenditures over a given period. With the aid of a model relating to dates and amounts of purchases, one can drive conditions for the repartition in time of the observations thats yield unbiased estimates of annual spending. An exact...

[eng] The rhythm of families composition, in other words the time required between marriage and birth of first child, or between the following births, is a component of natality whose importance has scarcely been studied up-to-now. Therefore, from period to period, from social category to social...

[fre] Parmi les 4,6 millions de personnes qui n'habitent plus en 1975 la même région qu'en 1968, ce sont surtout les jeunes adultes qui ont bougé (14 % des individus qui avaient entre 20 et 29 ans en 1975), et dans cette tranche d'âge il y a davantage de femmes migrantes que d'hommes....