Monnier Alain. ? The limits of working life and retirement. I. Age upon going into retirement : effective age, probable age and desired age. Results of an enquiry conducted in December, 1977, on 1,404 working people and 953 pensioners aged between 50 and 70 years old. The survey makes it...

Monnier Alain ? Intended and Achieved Fertility. The Family Survey : 1974, 1976, 1979 Consecutive observations made in 1974, 1976 and 1979 on the same sample of women show that statements about fertility intentions provide a reliable means of predicting the behaviour of individuals (77 per cent...

The accession of ten new members on 1 May 2004 produced an increase of 74 million in the population of the European Union, which now counts 455 million inhabitants. The Europe of Six had 167 million inhabitants in 1957. Since that date, the population of the community has thus increased by 288...