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Current topic: Cohabitation without registration in Russia

• Introduction

• Different marriage and partnership trajectories along a life path

• The chances of entering cohabitation as a first union

• Matrimonial and reproductive events: a generational cross-section

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Households in the EU-28

• 98.6% of the population of the EU-28 live in private households, with an average size of 2.4 persons

• One-third of households consist of one person, and another third of two

• People living alone make up from 21% of the households in Cyprus and Portugal to 45% in Denmark

• The average age at first marriage and the proportion of those never married is increasing

• Nearly one in five aged 25-29 years living in a consensual union

• 71% of households include a married couple

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Unregistered unions: marriage strategies of young representatives of the urban middle class

• Russian consensual unions at the beginning of the 21^st century

• The composition and wellbeing of single-parent families in Russia

• Singe mothers in modern China: status and problems

Take care of women!

• Trends in the use of contraception in the world

In the vastness of Russia

• Average life expectancy in Russia is about 72 years

• In 2015 the infant mortality rate decreased significantly

• The financial condition of Russians continues to worsen

• Access to kindergartens in Russia has reached 99%

• The most “advanced” pensioners live in the Central Federal District

• In Russia there are more than 3.2 million labor migrants from Central Asia

• In St. Petersburg the number of migrant workers has decreased

• In 2015, about half a million Russians died from diseases related to alcohol use

• The proportion of Russians regularly consuming beer is 76%

• Schools and universities will fight against alcoholism among the young

• State Duma proposes to toughen criminal responsibility for the sale of surrogate alcohol

• Up to 100,000 new cases of HIV have been registered in Russia this year

• The death toll from road accidents in Russia over the past year has fallen by 25%

• Mortality on Moscow’s roads has fallen by 25%

• Russia may announce ten-year fight against heart disease

• Nearly one fifth of married couples in Russia cannot have children

• State Duma decides not to make men pay the cost of abortion

• Draft law submitted to State Duma banning retail sales of “baby kaput” pills

• Mizulina called on the Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office to deal with the promotion of suicide in social networks

• Ministry of Health recommends that Russians get a flu shot

• In Russia around 20,000 people die from the flu each year

• Recommendations for healthy eating have been prepared

• Healthcare budget in 2016 has risen by 4.3%

• State program for the development of ambulance service must be given funding

• The cost of Russia’s Ebola vaccine has been announced

• An analogue of the US National Institutes of Health will be created in Tomsk

Eurasian panorama

• The number of Kazakhs has increased by 254,200 people over 11 months

• Ukraine’s population size continues to decline

• The population of Belarus in 2015 increased to 9,498,700

• The exact number of people living in Kiev is unknown

• 531 residents of Kiev are 100 or older

• Real money incomes in Belarus have been falling since the start of last year

• Pensions in Kirgizia are to be raised by 400-470 soms

• One in four pensioners in Belarus continues to work

• In Moldavia, a decreasing number of schoolchildren

• In Belarus, starting in February parental leave allowances for children up to three years of age will be increased

• Proposal to shorten parental leave in Belarus

• In Kazakhstan, more than 17,000 jobs a year remain unfilled

• In Kirgizia, over 200,000 unemployed

• Ukraine has begun issuing new passports

• Old passports of citizens of Uzbekistan are no longer valid

• Has Poland taken in around a million immigrants from Ukraine?

• 350,000 people lost forever for Moldova

• Around 700,000 citizens of Kirgizia living abroad

• More than 300,000 citizens of Tajikistan cannot enter Russia

• FMS has restored right of entry to Russia to 50% of Armenian applicants

• Over 10,000 foreigners in 2015 received work permits in Tajikistan

• Remittances of migrant workers make up as much as 32% of Kirgizia’s GDP

• Remittances from migrant workers to Kirgizia has decreased only in dollar terms

• Uzbekistan reduces maternal and infant mortality

• As a result of road accidents in Georgia around 600 people die each year

• The incidence of tuberculosis in Kazakhstan has decreased by 2.2 times

• Azerbaijan has simplified procedures for obtaining disability benefits

• Cases of violence against women in Armenia have become more frequent

• EU has again called on Belarus to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty

• Homeless children in Georgia to be granted official status

• Tajikistan forbids giving children names “degrading their honor and dignity”

World news

• Estonian population continues to decline

• Lithuania will not be able to increase its population to 3.5 million

• By 2039 the population of Lithuania will shrink by 32%, in Latvia by 24%

• Beijing wants to limit population to 23 million residents by 2020

• In 17 European countries mortality exceeds fertility

• China expecting a baby boom in the Year of the Monkey

• The number of Muslims in the US will double by 2050

• In Japan, world’s oldest man dies at 112

• Pakistan does not pass bill banning child marriage

• Experts at Davos Forum name the main risks of the next ten years

• Will migrants bury Europe?

• IMF sees benefits for the European economy from the influx of migrants

• US Supreme Court will consider Obama’s plan to legalize migrants

• First group of migrants from Cuba arrives in the US

• Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Russians make up the majority of foreigners in the Czech Republic

• EU soon to have hot spots for registering refugees

• Slovenia will restrict the entry of migrants

• Two-thirds of Czech citizens oppose the admission of refugees

• About 60% of migrants have little chance of getting refugee status in the EU

• Germany sends back thousands of Ukrainian refugees

• Italy blocks the delivery to Turkey of 3 billion euros for refugees

• Danes “fighting” the influx of migrants with pork meatballs

• Optimal age for having children is from 23 to 32 years

• In the US the number of abortions going down

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Government allocate more than $4.5 billion to fight malaria

• WHO will help countries to prepare for possible outbreaks of the Zika virus

• Venezuelan Government has announced a large-scale crisis in the health sector

• Does the midlife crisis not exist?

The newspapers write about…

• “Realnoye Vremya” on Russia’s social problems through the eyes of Kudrin

• “Financial Times” on the financial problems of the social support system

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on getting used to poverty

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the impact of the economic downturn on human capital

• “Polit.ru” on crises and mortality

• “Stratfor” on the AIDS problem in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on a proposal to include testing for HIV and hepatitis in state medical exams

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on an appeal not to have children

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on Russia’s place in the healthcare effectiveness rating

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the French healthcare system

• “Izvestiya” on making foreigners pay for ambulances

• “Vedomosti” on the migration crisis in the EU

• “Slate.fr” on the New Year scandal with migrants and multiculturalism

• “BBC” on courses for migrants in Finland

• “Slon.ru” on the return home of refugees from Europe

• “Novaya gazeta” and “The Guardian” on the expulsion of refugees from Norway to Russia

• “Vedomosti” on the consequences of the departure of Russian guest workers

• “Birzhevoy lider” on the brain drain from Ukraine

• “24.kg” on the costs of a visa-free regime for Kirgizia

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on a proposal to abolish registration in Kirgizia

• “Vedomosti” on pivotal universities

• “Novye Izvestiya” on medical university graduates “working off” their education

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the accelerated aging of presidents

• “Izvestiya” on obesity in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on responsibility for adolescents for alcohol consumption

• “RBK” on people “employed in who-knows-what”

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the ban on consanguineous marriages in Tajikistan

• “Slon.ru” on the problems of a society of long-livers

• “Izvestiya” on a roster of Indigenous Peoples

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on a third sex

Read books and magazines

• Healthcare in Russia. 2015

• 2014 United Nations Demographic Yearbook

• Labor migration and labor-intensive industries in Kirgizia and Tajikistan: opportunities for human development in Central Asia

• World Population Ageing 2015

• Key indicators of maternal and child health, child welfare service activities and obstetrics in the Russian Federation

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Rossiyskiy pediatricheskiy zhurnal” (“Russian Journal of Pediatrics”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Development Review”

Demographic digest

• Cesarean sections and subsequent fertility

• Urban fertility responses to local government programs: Evidence from the 1923-1932 U.S.

• Measuring the effect of the timing of first birth on wages

• Today's playmates are more like anime figures than real humans

Profession: researcher

• The "work-family" balance in demographic and family policy. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

Demoscope Weekly turns 15

• What we’ve been up to over the past 15 years

Student page

• HSE competition for admission to its Master's program

• The latest meeting of Student Society “Demographer”