France Guérin-Pace

• Research Director at National Institute for Demographic Studies

The Euro Spatial Diffusion Observatory (ESDO) database records face-to-face questionnaire surveys conducted between March 2002 and December 2011 in France, in December 2003 in Belgium and in December 2005 in Germany. The data provides information on the coins contained in the respondents' wallets at the time of the survey, classified by country of...

This study examines the social and territorial structure of the relations between Eurozone countries and residents that we grasp by studying the diffusion of foreign euro coins (2002-2011). As a euro coin is conveyed across space by persons, it offers a good representation of both social and spatial networks, as well as it allows the study of both...

Over the last twenty years, European Union (EU) actorness at both regional and global scales, has become a fruitful topic of analysis in the eld of political science, and more specically in international relations and political geography. Critical geopolitics dedicated many substantive papers on EU discourses and representations. Our paper aims at...

Dilemmas of Tunisian regional reform Spatial and territorial analysis of proposals to reorganize administrative network Territorial disparities in Tunisia are studied for a long time by Spatial Economists, Geographers and Developers. Our paper deals with two different regional divisions: on the one hand, 6 planing Regions inherited from National P...

La question des inégalités territoriales en Tunisie est ancienne et a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux de recherche menés par les économistes spatiaux et les géographes-aménageurs. Notre contribution a pour objectif de discuter les arguments opposant deux découpages régionaux : les six régions de planification héritées du schéma national d’aménagem...

The recent history of Turkey is characterised by major changes in public discourse and public opinion, related to the changing position of Turkey on the world stage. Changing attitudes toward European Union appear to be a marker of this transformation. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the perception of Europe and the world in the eyes of Turkis...

In this communication, we provide an analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), based on 7 texts published by the European Commission and then by the European External Action Service between 2003 and 2013. The analysis of this corpus of texts by the methods of textual statistics brings a complementary perspective to the research works in...

The population census constitutes the main provider of data on the composition of the population of a country. It is supposed to answer two fundamental questions: ‘How many are we?’ and ‘Who are we?’ This article focuses on the way in which the census paints a picture of a nation by collecting data on the ethnic or racial ‘origins’ or ‘belonging’ o...

Thinking about what Europe is, about its location or its limits often consists in trying to identify something such as a European identity, a common project or adherence to a lifestyle. In this perspective, the feeling of belonging to a place implies various dimensions, including subjective perceptions. To explore this, the research project EuroBro...

An urban dream? The diversity of gays’ migration paths Among the specific dimensions of the lifestyles of gays classically presented in social science literature, appears that of the migration towards metropolises, supposed to be anonymous, tolerant and emancipating. To test this theory, we use an online survey to collect more than 3,500 questionna...

Since they were brought into circulation in 2002, euro coins have travelled widely across Europe. The country of issue gives an indirect indication of the movements of the individuals who have carried these coins and of the intensity of international relations. The percentage of foreign euro coins in France rose from 5% in March 2002 to 34% in Dece...

This article studies the material produced by l'Espace géographique since the creation of the journal in 1972 on the basis of the titles and keywords of the 1090 articles published in this period. The statistical processing of this corpus enables the keywords specific to a given period to be pinpointed, and these provide good indications of the mai...

In spite of the constraints imposed by the Islamic regime, Iranian women are very present in the urban space. The objective of this paper is to challenge the ideological discourse and the stereotypes about the place of women in the city. It is based on the results of the surveydaily mobility of women In the city of Tehran" which aims to build a det...

This eurobroadmap working paper, split in 5 different volumes, presents the synthesis of a large survey launched in 2009 on 9000 undergraduate students from 18 different countries. The volume 1 includes the executive summary, plus elements regarding the five different volumes (references, list of figures, etc). The second one presents the aims and...

In order to simulate the evolution of a system of settlements with a dynamic model, many processes must be integrated: the spatial aggregation of population, the complexification of urban activities, and the increasing hierarchical differentiation of settlements. The model must also simulate the progressive structuration of the settlement system th...

Réalisée en 2003 par l'Insee et ses partenaires, l'enquête Histoire de vie a pour objet central la quête des appartenances dans laquelle sont engagés les acteurs sociaux. L'ouvrage explore les parcours individuels à travers différents registres identitaires : le territoire, la famille, l'appartenance sociale, la conjugalité, l'activité professionne...

Linguistic practices and migration pathways: a complex articulation The relation between migration routes and linguistic practices reveals a complex link between the spoken languages and the emergence of a feeling of territorial belonging. This article draws particular attention to how a privileged relationship with either a regional language or a...

[ger] Die vorhandenen Daten über den persönlichen Werdegang, den Ort der Schulausbildung, aber auch subjektivere Daten über die „Empfindungen“ geben Aufschluss über die bei der Erhebung Information und Alltag (IVQ) im Jahre 2004 vorgenommene Bewertung der Fähigkeiten. Von allen Personen, die ihre Schuldausbildung in französischer Sprache (9 773), s...

In this article, we engage in a debate that first took place in France ten years ago, but that has revived today. This debate concerns the question of whether to introduce ethnic categories in statistical surveys in France. There is strong opposition between those who argue for statistical categories to measure ethnic or racial populations as part...

Le débat scientifique que suscite le quartier est aujourd'hui à la hauteur de l'engouement dont il bénéficie dans la société. En effet, alors que les scientifiques se sont emparés du quartier, se demandant notamment si ces espaces continus de la proximité ont encore un sens, le local fait un retour en force dans le débat public. Face à la crise sup...

A l'ère de la mondialisation, la ville contemporaine se reconfigure.Les rapports que les citadins entretiennent à l'espace et au monde social se transforment : les mobilités urbaines s'accélèrent ; les relations sociales se développent en réseaux déterritorialisés. Pour autant, les formes d'ancrage local et les pratiques de proximité ont-elles disp...

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Élus et citadins semblent vouloir mobiliser de manière croissante une figure très ancienne de la ville : le quartier. Cette entité serait le moyen de recréer des formes de proximités et de solidarités urbaines. Certains chercheurs contestent cependant l’existence de quartier dans la métropole : le citadin, plus mobile, créant différents espaces de...

Presentation of a debate of l'Espace Geographique 2004

Drawing on interviews and data collected in a quantitative survey on identity (Life History survey, INSEE, 2003), this paper addresses the process of developing a sense of territorial belonging in populations that are increasingly mobile on an international scale. The whole of an individual's geographical trajectory and the meaning bestowed on plac...

Drawing on interviews and data collected in a quantitative survey on identity (Life History survey, INSEE, 2003), this paper addresses the process of developing a sense of territorial belonging in populations that are increasingly mobile on an international scale. The whole of an individual’s geographical trajectory and the meaning bestowed on plac...

[ger] Wohnorte, Investitionsorte: die Beziehungen zu einem Ort eine identitatsstiftende Komponente? . . Jeder dritte der bei der Erhebung Lebensgeschichte . Befragten erwahnt seinen Geburtsort oder einen Ort der Verbundenheit ais wichtiges Merkmal zu seiner Gharakterisierung. In einer Zeit, in der die individuellen geographischen Parcours zunehmend...

[fre] La statistique publique aborde le plus souvent la question de la place des individus dans la société à travers la description des statuts qui définissent leur identité au sens de l'état civil - le genre, la situation matrimoniale, la profession, la nationalité, les lieux de naissance et de résidence, etc. - et des liens de parenté et de socia...

One in three of those questioned in the Life Story (Histoire de vie) survey stated that their place of origin or a place that they have an emotional attachment to are important for defining themselves. This spatial component of identity construction is evaluated in the survey by noting the successive places a person has lived in during their life a...

At the beginning of 2002, the new euro currency was introduced in 12 of the 15 States of the European Union. The study of the national origin of coins can be used - under certain conditions - to produce a picture of global mobility of Europeans across national boundaries. The paper presents the results of two surveys carried out in France and Belgi...

A computational model is defined to explain the distribution of coin content of French people's purses as obtained from a sequence of surveys carried out in France during the years 2002 and 2003. The agreement between theoretical and experimental data is noticeable. The model predicts the purse content in both Dollar and Yen monetary areas.

En 2003, l'Insee a réalisé l'enquête Histoire de vie sur la construction des identités, qui visait à appréhender les formes actuelles de l'intégration sociale à partir de la description du lien social, réel et symbolique, qui se construit dans les parcours individuels et les appartenances collectives. L'article expose les fondements conceptuels de...

In 2003, INSEE conducted the Life History survey on identity construction, with the aim of analysing present-day forms of social integration through description of the social tie, both real and symbolic, constructed in individual histories and collective affiliations. The article presents the conceptual foundations of a project that has its rationa...

In 2003, INSEE conducted the Life History survey on identity construction, with the aim of analysing present-day forms of social integration through description of the social tie, both real and symbolic, constructed in individual histories and collective affiliations. The article presents the conceptual foundations of a project that has its rationa...

At the beginning of 2002, the new euro currency was introduced in 12 of the 15 States of the European Union. The study of the national origin of coins can be used - under certain conditions - to produce a picture of global mobility of Europeans across national boundaries. The paper presents the results of two surveys carried out in France and Belgi...

English In 2003, INSEE conducted the Life History survey on identity construction, with the aim of analysing present-day forms of social integration through description of the social tie, both real and symbolic, constructed in individual histories and collective affiliations. The article presents the conceptual foundations of a project that has its...

European mobility, tourism and diffusion of foreign euro coins in France The analysis of the elementary process of euro coins diffusion indicates that networks of individuals play a major role in the international circulation of coins. Through regular surveys realised on representative samples of French population since beginning of 2002, the Euro...

L’observation des deplacements pedestres dans l’espace situe a proximite du logement demontre une grande diversite des pratiques spatiales des citadins qui se traduit par des morphologies differenciees des espaces parcourus. A partir de l’analyse systematique de 1 500 cartes de parcours individuels, c’est le rapport des populations a leur espace pr...

An observation of urban dwellers' walking itineraries in the space in the immediate vicinity of their place of residence reveals a wide variety of spatial practices, reflected in differentiated morphologies of used space. Through a systematic analysis of 1,500 maps of individuals' routes, we have tried to describe the population's relationship to i...

French Urban System. Various Measures of Inequality Distribution of « Pareto » patternThe hierarchy formed by the distribution of urban populations in a territorial ensemble (department, region, country) is characterized by its degree of inequality. Descriing the development of an urban system, comparing various systems at a given moment in time, a...

Summary The International Adult Literacy Survey raises a number of important issues which are inherent in all attempts to make comparisons of cognitive and behavioural attributes across countries. This paper discusses both the statistical and interpretational problems. A detailed analysis of the survey instruments is carried out to demonstrate the...

The hierarchy formed by the distribution of urban populations in a territorial ensemble (department, region, country) is characterized by its degree of inequality. Descriing the development of an urban system, comparing various systems at a given moment in time, addressing the results of simulation necessite an estimate of the inequality in urban h...

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The analysis with textual methods of occupational careers of couples is compared here with an event history analysis. The first one permits to include a large variety of trajectories and to consider all kinds of changes between states. The second one is useful to estimate parameters for the understanding of occupational mobility.

The social sciences have traditionally developed independently of each other, elaborating their own objects of study and their own methods.At present, however, we are witnessing an increasing convergence of approach at the same time as an extension of their fields of application. Methods derived from the same type of statistical model are now being...

Resume. — La description des representations attachees a l'environnement est un des objectifs principaux de l'enquete «Populations-Espaces de vie-Environnements», realisee en 1992 (INED) aupres d'un echantillon de 5000 personnes, representatif de la population francaise. Une premiere etape consiste a examiner quelles representations les populations...

The description of representations attributed to the word environment is one of the main objectives of the survey Populations-Espaces de vieEnvironnements (populations-life spaces-environments) carried out in 1992 (INED) on a population sample of 5,000 people, representative of the French population. The first stage of this survey consisted in exam...

L'utilité de la statistique textuelle est aujourd'hui largement reconnue par de nombreuses disciplines en sciences sociales. En effet, rares sont les domaines de recherche où le texte ne constitue pas un matériau d'analyse important. Du traitement des réponses à des questions ouvertes à celui d'entretiens, d'ouvrages, ou encore de parcours individu...

The value of textual statistics is now widely acknowledged in many branches of the social sciences, reflecting the fact that there are few fields of research in which the text is not a major element for analysis. The statistical processing may be of responses to open questions, interviews, texts and even individual itineraries. The procedures are n...

SIMPOP is a knowledge-based simulation system for the description of the evolution of settlement patterns over long time periods. Rules and parameters are introduced into a multiagent systems formalism where each settlement is considered as a separate entity interacting with the others and transforming itself. The rules may allow for the simulation...

Si, dans le passé, les sciences sociales se sont constituées indépendamment les unes des autres, avec leur propre objet d'étude et leurs méthodes particulières, on observe actuellement une convergence croissante de leurs approches et une extension de leur domaine. Ainsi les méthodes issues du même type de modèle statistique, sont aussi bien utilisé...

Simpop is a model which simulates the emergence and the evolution of a settlement system on a period of 2000 years. It is the result of a collaboration between geographers and specialists of artificial intelligence and it is based on a multi-agent system approach. The basic principle of this approach is that from local level interactions emerge coh...

From data on French cities' population covering almost two centuries, the viability of rank-size parameters for describing the evolution of city size distributions is tested. We first demonstrate the sensitivity of the Pareto's exponent to the variations of city sample size. The population threshold for which the adjustment of the city size distrib...

A l'initiative et avec le soutien du ministère de l'Environnement, l'INED a procédé en 1992 à une enquête sur la "population, l'espace de vie et l'environnement" qui permet d'étudier les représentations associées au mot "environnement", ainsi que les savoirs et opinions en matière de ressources naturelles. Trois questions sous-tendaient l'organisat...

PIP: Trends in urbanization in France over the past 150 years are reviewed. The authors note that over this period, the number of French cities has increased by a factor of three, and that of urban residents by a factor of seven. Regional differences in urban trends are examined. A continuity in the national urban hierarchy over time is established...

[fre] Après un siècle et demi d'urbanisation progressive, la France compte trois fois plus de villes et sept fois plus de citadins. Trois français sur quatre sont désormais urbains et parmi eux, trois sur cinq habitent une ville de plus de 100.000 habitants. Cette urbanisation n'a pas été uniforme selon les régions ou les villes. Certaines unités u...

The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), coordinated by Statistics Canada, was conducted in some 20 countries between 1994 and 2000. Based on the survey's findings, a wrap-up report containing a comparative analysis of reading skills in participating countries was published in 2000 under the auspices of the OECD. Unfortunately, there are ver...