About INED The French Institute for Demographic Studies or INED, is a public research institute specialized in population studies that works in partnership with the academic and research communities at national and international levels.
Who we are Founded in 1945, the Institut national d’études démographiques (French Institute for Demographic Studies, or INED) stands as one of the major public research institutions in the population sciences. It investigates population issues in all their diversity, disseminates demographic knowledge, and promotes training in and through research. INED’s expertise spans a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines—including not only demography but also sociology, economics, history, geography, statistics, and epidemiology. While a large share of its research concerns France, international comparisons are frequently undertaken and other geographical regions are a strong focus of interest. * Our history * Our remit In 1986, INED became one of France’s eight public scientific and technical institutions (EPST), alongside CNRS, INSERM, INRA and the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement). The Institute’s overall missions are to study all aspects of population, to provide training in and through research, to keep the government, public authorities and general public informed about demographic questions and to disseminate French demographic research internationally. * Missions and activities * Research Evaluation * INED organization * Reference Documents * Campus Condorcet INED, the French Institute for Demographic Studies, is a founding member of the Campus Condorcet. All Institute teams are settled at the Campus’s Aubervilliers site and actively working to make this new, comprehensive human and social sciences research center a national and international benchmark institution. * The Campus Condorcet * Humatheque
Calls for projects INED research projects are funded in part by the Institute’s budget line. They may also receive support from funding agencies like the Agence Nationale de la Recherche or ANR [French national research agency] and other public organizations, companies, or European Union programs such as the European Research Council or ERC and the Horizon 2020 program. * ANR * PIA projects The “Investments in the Future Program” or PIA has awarded INED ongoing funding for Laboratories of Excellence (LabEx), Research Infrastructures of Excellences (ÉquipEx), graduate research programs, and the Institut Convergences. These structures provide the population sciences with funding instruments to facilitate the development of ambitious scientific projects that will further increase the scientific excellence and international visibility of French research. * Labex * Equipex * EUR * ICM * International calls for grant proposals
Partnerships in France INED regularly signs partnership agreements with a wide range of French organizations to formally establish scientific objectives and a cooperation framework. At the national level, the Institute is also strengthening its ties with higher education. * Universities * Scientific groups * Research organisations * INSEE
Shared Science Knowledge is meant to be shared. INED is committed to an active policy of promoting access that is as open as possible to research data, methods, and findings on population. * Open Science * Science and society
Research Research at INED is organized around multidisciplinary and topic-focused teams made up of its own permanent researchers and associated researchers. Institute research units host doctoral students and post-docs for training in and through research. Over 70 multi-annual projects are under way. For some, INED designs and carries out its own surveys—one of its specificities. Collected data are then made available to the scientific community.
Post-docs INED also offers one- or two-year post-doctoral contracts to young French or foreign researchers. Recipients are selected on the basis of their competence, the quality and originality of their research project, and its relevance to INED research areas. * Post-docs hosted * Hosting post-docs * Call for Application 2024
Surveys INED designs and carries out its own surveys. The data thus collected are accessible to the entire scientific community. The Institute has its own survey office, which defines sampling methods, assists in designing questionnaires and drawing up data collection protocols, and adjusts statistical samples. It is also in charge of making anonymized data available to others. INED’s survey catalogue and a description of the projects in progress may be consulted on line. * Survey catalogue * Surveys in process * Accessing data
Resources, Methods INED makes a vast body of resources on population available to website users, including the INED library, open to all and accessible on line; and presentations of statistical analysis and survey methods.
Statistical Methodology Research relies on a wide range of statistical analysis methods to process survey data and to describe and model demographic events and phenomena on the basis of that data. Alongside classic methods such as data analysis and logistic regression, several other methods have come to the fore in the last 30 years. * Event history analysis * Multilevel analysis * Sequence analysis * Resources and seminars Seminars on research methodology and practices in France and abroad, articles on method use, and extensive reference lists are just some of the statistics-related resources available * StatApp * RUSS Seminars
Survey Methodology Each survey is specific but all surveys include a number of requisite steps and phases. Important factors to be taken into account from the outset include survey protocol, sampling frame, budget, regulations, questionnaire testing, data file compilation, and quality assessment. INED’s Surveys Department handles most of the data collection procedures involved in INED research projects. It may assist with data production throughout the process or provide help on particular survey phases only. * Procedures * Methodological choices * Statistical aspects * Achieving quality * Dissemination of findings
Publications INED Publications has been in existence since the Institute’s founding in 1945, consistent with one of its fundamental missions: to disseminate scientific knowledge. INED Publications reflects and enacts the Institute’s commitment to multi-disciplinarity in demographic research by diffusing and promoting scientific production and survey results and findings to a diverse audience, thereby making solid scientific expertise and knowledge available for public debate on major social issues. Recently, the Open Archive has widened diffusion of free-access published materials while ensuring the continued preservation of INED researchers’ studies.
Library Vast documentary resources on population are freely available on the INED website, including the Institute’s Library, open to all and accessible on line; a selection of related websites; selected articles by INED researchers on a set of population-related themes; and presentations of survey and statistical analysis methods. The Institute’s Library, Documentation and Archives service has become integrated into the Humatheque of the Campus Condorcet. It comprises the collections of over 50 libraries, documentation, and archive centers, all in the service of human and social science research. * Humathèque Campus Condorcet * Humathèque Catalogue * Thesaurus Demovoc
All about population A tour of the globe to explore its population. Use this section to: compare demographic indicators for different countries; help prepare for a class or an oral presentation; find simple answers to your questions; reflect on complex issues; learn the basics of demography; extend your knowledge through play...
Data All about population in Figures: tables on the French and world population and access to several online databases. * France The latest data on the population of metropolitan France (structure and trends) are given in a series of tables. They are based on data published regularly by INSEE and on INED estimates and projections. More complete datasets dating back to earlier years can also be downloaded in CSV format. * Evolution of population The tables for “All of France” bring together data for metropolitan France and the four overseas départements (DOMs). These figures do not include Mayotte, which became the fifth DOM on 31 March 2011, or the overseas territories and collectivities (New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Saint Barthélémy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna). INSEE includes the DOMs in its annual demographic overview and in most of the tables in its detailed annual study of the demographic situation in France. * Total population * Projections * Population structure * Population change The population changes from one year to the next. Natural change is the difference between births and deaths, and can be determined precisely from vital records. Net migration is the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants. It is estimated on the basis of available statistics. Adjustments are sometimes made to establish overall consistency between census population figures and inter-census estimates of population change. To estimate its relative scale, population change is often expressed in relation to the mean population of a given year. Rates of birth, death, natural increase and total variation are obtained in this way. * Births, deaths, migrations * Fertility rates, mortality rates, natural increase * Births, fertility Registered births are recorded in statistical bulletins which provide a rich source of information. Births are counted on the basis of many different characteristics: parents’ marital status and nationality, sex of the child, twin births, etc. Information on the mother’s age is used to calculate annual fertility indicators, such as the total fertility rate expressed as a total number of children per woman. Completed cohort fertility is also calculated every year. For example, women born in 1970 were 34 years old in 2004. We know how many children they have had before age 34 and we can estimate how many children they will have during their reproductive life. * Total births by sex * Births outside marriage * Births by parents’ place of birth * Multiple births * Changes in fertility * Mean age at maternity * Cohort fertility * Abortion, contraception Fertility can be controlled by means of contraception and induced abortion. Information on contraceptive practice in France is obtained through surveys conducted regularly by INED since 1978 among the entire female population. The number of induced abortions is estimated on the basis of abortion notifications and hospital statistics. INED is responsible for publication of abortion statistics. * Abortions * Contraception * Marriages, divorces, Civil Unions (Pacs) * Couples, households, families * Deaths, causes of mortality * International Migration * Immigrants and immigrant descendants Population censuses provide an opportunity to count the number of inhabitants who were born outside France. Among foreign-born inhabitants, a distinction is generally made between persons born with French nationality and immigrants, who are born with a different nationality. Inhabitants are distinguished by their nationality, i.e. French or foreign and, among French citizens, those who were born French and those who have been naturalized. The census provides information on current nationality and nationality at birth. Foreigners and immigrants form two different categories. Immigrants "born abroad as a foreign national" may still be foreigners at the time of the census or may have become French. Foreigners, for their part, may have been born abroad (in which case they are immigrants) or in France (in which case they are not immigrants). * Immigrant and foreign population * Immigrants by country of birth * Descendants of immigrants by country of origin * Descendants of immigrants by age and country of origin * European and developed countries * All countries * World Projections The World Population Prospects publication provides United Nations population estimates for all countries in the world for each year between 1950 and 2020 and projections under different scenarios (low, medium and high) for each year between 2020 and 2100. The figures presented here correspond to the projections for the current year in the medium scenario. * Projections by countries * Projections by continent * Detailed data
Demographic fact sheets Demographic fact sheets offer a brief, clear overview of current knowledge about populations. These materials—teaching kits, analytical notes, and interviews—summarize specific scientific questions and decipher the issues related to population questions. All of them may be used as tools for introducing students to demographic phenomena and demographic change in France and throughout the world. * Focus on * In our researchers’ own words * The issue today
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