Elena Churilova

• PhD
• Researcher at National Research University Higher School of Economics

The Russian Fertility Database contains a series of fertility indicators by birth order for Russia from 1946 to 2022, cohort fertility tables by birth order, and fertility rates by birth order for Russian women born between 1932 and 1988. All fertility indicators are calculated using data from official population statistics provided by the Federal...

Влияние алкоголя на смертность населения России в настоящее время одно из самых высоких в мире. В статье на основе официальных данных о связанной с алкоголем смертности, документов об антиалкогольной политике, публикаций современников и материалов Ижевского обследования семей анализируются динамика потребления алкоголя, влияние потребления алкоголя...

Based on data from the 2021 Sample Population Health Survey, the paper assesses the prevalence and socio-demographic and behavioral risk factors of pre-obesity and obesity among the adult population of Russia. A standard approach for epidemiological studies was used: body weight was assessed using the Body Mass Index (BMI). The influence of risk fa...

A basic hypothesis is that cultural evolutionary processes sustain differences between groups, these differences have evolutionary relevance, and they would not otherwise occur in a system without cultural transmission. The empirical challenge is that groups vary for many reasons, and isolating the causal effects of culture often requires appropria...

This paper examines the life-time measures and trends of children’s experiences in single-parent and two-parent families in Russia and France, within the context of generations. The study was conducted using two panel waves of GGS-Russia (2004, 2007) and GGS-France (2005, 2008). The results indicate that despite the Second Demographic Transition st...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed significant gaps in the coverage and quality of the existing international and national statistical surveillance systems. The most reliable approach to estimating mortality associated with short-term risk factors or factors fluctuating within calendar years is based on estimating weekly excess mortality. Although...

Перепись населения раунда 2020 г. прошла в России в октябре-ноябре 2021 г. и имела ряд отличий от переписей 2002 и 2010 г.: 1) перепись 2021 г. была проведена в разгар пандемии коронавирусной инфекции; 2) россияне впервые могли принять участие в переписи, заполнив электронные переписные листы в сети Интернет; 3) критический момент переписи приходил...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the share of believers, as well as practicing believers among young Russians increased. All four so-called traditional religions in Russia - Orthodoxy, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism - encourage large families. Although the data from official statistics does not allow finding a correlation between fertility and...

While cohabitation and non-marital childbearing have been increasing in Russia since 1990, the share of marital first births that are conceived prior to marriage has changed very little since the Soviet era. The prior findings on the stability of trends in premarital conceptions in Russia have been contradictory and inconclusive. This study aims to...

Abstract Background Hypertension is recognized as an important contributor to high cardiovascular mortality in Russia. A comprehensive analysis of data from Russian studies that measured blood pressure in population-based samples has not been previously undertaken. This study aims to identify trends and patterns in mean blood pressure and the preva...

The article scrutinizes one of the most acute problems in Russian society – the continued high level of separations among first unions.According to the official statistics data, Russia has consistently held a leading position in terms of divorce rates among European countries.Recent estimates of period total divorce rates suggest that 30–40% of mar...

Background: The study aims at identifying long-term trends and patterns of current smoking by age, gender, and education in Russia, including the most recent period from 2008 during which tobacco control policies were implemented, and to estimate the impact on mortality of any reductions in prevalence. We present an in-depth analysis based on an u...

The collapse of the USSR and structural changes in society gave rise to family and marriage transformations in Russia and other post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe. Estonia is among the examples of rapid marriage transformation and the spread of cohabitations and extramarital births. At the same time, throughout the post-war era Estonia accepte...

Based on data from three waves of research, “Children and Parents, Men and Women in Family and Society” (CPMW) analyzed various aspects of the lives of incomplete families in Russia: their structure, well-being, and possibilities for single mothers to combine work and child care. The analysis showed that the household structure under single mothers...

Basing on data of the third wave "Generation and Gender survey" (GGS), author analyzes characteristics of single-parent families' life, structure of single-parent families, their welfare and well-being, possibilities to combine work and family. Most of single-parent families consist of mother and her minor children. Economic activity of lonely moth...