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In the context of rapid social and technological change, which has been characteristic of Western industrialised nations since the Second World War, it has become imperative for governments to refine procedures for the collection, analysis and evaluation of detailed up-to-date information about the socio-economic phenomena associated with population growth and variations in its distribution and structure. These data provide the basis for monitoring and understanding contemporary trends, for making forecasts about future developments and for formulating effective policies to meet the needs predicted, whether they be for education, professional training, housing, medical care or other social welfare services and communal facilities.
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Bibliographical guidance
General works presenting and analysing demographic features and trends in France:
P. Ariès, Histoire des populations françaises et de leurs attitudes devant la vie depuis le XVIII e siècle, new ed. (Paris: Seuil, 1971)
J. Beaujeu-Garnier, La Population française: après le recensement de 1975 (Paris: Colin, 1976)
‘La France et sa population aujourd’hui’, Cahiers français, 184 (1978)
INSEE, ‘Principaux résultats du recensement de 1975’, Les Collections de l’INSEE, D 52 (1977)
E. Sullerot, La Démographie de la France: bilan et perspectives (Paris: Documentation Française, 1978)
The problems of the elderly and the young:
A.-M. Guillemard, La Retraite, une mort sociale: sociologie des conduites en situation de retraite (Paris: Mouton, 1972)
‘Le Troisième Age’, LeMonde: dossiers et documents, 21 (May 1975)
P. Desgraupes, ‘L’enfant cet inconnu’, Le Point, 304 (17 July 1978) 74–80, 305 (24 July 1978) 71–80, 306 (31 July 1978) 64–9, 307 (7 Aug 1978) 59–65, 308 (14 Aug 1978) 65–72, 309 (21 Aug 1978)67–72
A. Sauvy, La Montée des jeunes (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1959)
The geographical distribution of the population and migratory movements:
P. Brongniart, La Région en France (Paris: Colin, 1971)
J.-F. Gravier, Paris et le désert français en 1972 (Paris: Flammarion, 1972)
‘Les travailleurs immigrés’, Après-demain, 204–5 (May-June 1978)
B. Granotier, Les Travailleurs immigrés en France (Paris: Maspero, 1976)
‘Les immigrés en France’, Le Monde: dossiers et documents, 29 (March 1976)
Analysis of socio-occupational structure:
INSEE, Code des catégories socio-professionnelles, 6th ed. (1977)
J. Marceau, Class and Status in France: Economic Change and Social Mobility 1945–1975 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)
G. Vincent, Les Français 1945–1975: chronologie et structure d’une sociéte (Paris: Masson, 1977)
Reviews:
Up-to-date information and analysis, including comparisons with other countries, are provided regularly in publications by the INED: the bimonthly review Population and the monthly pamphlet Population et société, and by the INSEE: Données sociales 1973, 74, 78, 81 and the monthly Economie et statistique.
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Hantrais, L. (1982). Demographic Features. In: Contemporary French Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86105-7_2
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