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Current topic: How to estimate the number of people with disabilities in Russia

• Where do the data on people with disabilities come from?

• How many adults become disabled each year?

• How many adults in Russia have disabilities?

• How many disabled people do the censuses “see”?

• How disabled people are chosen for sample surveys?

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results of the first six months of 2016 (part 2)

• In January-June 2016 the number of deaths and the crude death rate fell by almost 3%

• The mortality rate from all major classes of causes has decreased

• Mortality from external causes declined by 7% compared to the first half of 2015

• Among those who died in 2015 from infectious and parasitic diseases, 50% were under the age of 40 years; among those who died from external causes - 36%

• Infant mortality in the first half of 2016 decreased to 6,1 ‰

• Compared with the first half of 2015, there was an increase in mortality from certain infectious and parasitic diseases among those of working age

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Cripples, invalids, or people with disabilities? A review of the history of disability

• Measuring disability and the status of the disabled: Russian and international approaches

• Measures of state support for employment of persons with disabilities in Russia

Q&A

• Young people on the young

• The difficulties of family life

• Availability and quality of Russian medicine given fewer than 3 points out of 5 by Russians

• Russians are ready to support colleagues with HIV

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy of Russians has increased by eight months

• In Russia, in the first 7 months of 2016 mortality exceeded fertility

• Medvedev stresses importance of fertility in Russia

• Government has proposed to stimulate the fertility in the Far Eastern Federal District with preferential mortgages

• Rosstat denies reports about compulsory participation in the census

• If the census is made convenient, penalties will not be needed

• A decision on raising the retirement age has not been taken

• Most Russian families complain about a lack of money

• Is complete pension indexation in the form of a lump sum a fair decision?

• Topilin says that maternity capital is effective and must not be abolished

• Ministry of Labor begins to think about encouraging women who give birth before the age of 30

• 15% of Russian families in big cities do not want to send their children to school

• In five Russian regions the percentage of university applicants from other areas reaches 60%

• In Primorye, not even well-paid specialists stay on

• 119,000 Kyrgyz citizens still on blacklist of Russia’s FMS

• In Ryazan, guest workers may be forbidden to work as taxi drivers and hairdressers

• In Moscow, out-of-towners commit 75% of rapes

• Ministry of Health has promised to adopt within two weeks a strategy for combating HIV

• Ministry of Health will make HIV testing part of mass health examination as of 2017

• In 2016, 403 children were killed on the roads of Russia

• Ministry of Finance proposes to increase minimum prices for vodka

• Proposal to fine parents whose children buy alcohol

• Regions with low cancer detection rates will receive a plan of action

• Ministry of Health is working to reduce maternal and infant mortality

• Putin urges to continue the construction of perinatal centers in the regions

• Skvortsova says that flu vaccine has already been received by 50% of regions

• Muscovites will be able to receive flu vaccination at the metro

• Ministry of Health has prepared a draft law on selling medicines on internet

• Over 90% of Russians avoid foods with GMOs, preservatives and bio-additives

• Russian men give more to charity than do women

World news

• World population will reach 10 billion by the year 2053

• Eurostat compares EU with countries of the “Big Twenty”

• The number of elderly in China is greater than the entire population of the Russian Federation

• One in six people do not want to live to the age of 80

• About two-thirds of children in Latvia are born to ethnic Latvian women

• In Latvia, a growing number of pensioners and a shrinking number of workers

• In France, a growing number of couples where the man is younger than the woman

• Negative demographic trends in Latvia limiting economic growth

• In Latvia, additional funds will be allocated in fight against poverty

• Absenteeism costs French companies Ђ60 billion annually

• Lithuania successfully fighting youth unemployment

• Unemployment in Japan in July fell to lowest point since 1995

• Microsoft has published a list of the most popular professions in the future

• Almost 50 million children have left home to escape conflict, violence and poverty

• Obama has deported more people than all US presidents before him

• EU’s possibilities for taking in migrants have reached their limit

• German authorities have announced the expected number of migrants this year

• “Germany will remain Germany”, despite the integration of refugees

• Merkel announces improvement in the situation of migrants in Germany

• In Austria, Merkel’s migration policy called “irresponsible”

• Hungary will help Serbia to protect the border from migrants

• Austria threatens to take Hungary to court for refusal to take back refugees

• Czech Republic refuses to take in migrants until the end of 2016

• Norwegian authorities planning to deport up to 15,000 asylum-seekers

• In New Zealand, the influx of migrants is blamed on the laziness of New Zealanders

• The best country for immigration turns out to be Taiwan

• Tajik migrants have begun sending home more money

• Remittances from Moldovan migrants continue to fall

• About 2.5 million people a year are infected with HIV

• The number of people with heart problems will triple by 2060

• Many antibiotics are no longer effective against sexually transmitted diseases

• Mortality from pollution is comparable to mortality from cancer

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant” and “Vedomosti” on the maternity capital

• “Lenta.ru” on the inevitability of a shrinking population

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on new cuts in the health care system

• “Novye Izvestiya” on medicines for benefit recipients

• “Gazeta.ru” on life expectancy in the Middle East

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on HIV

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on giving birth at a later age

• “The Nation” on movements against abortion

• “ABC.es” on the fight against baby boxes

• “Sevodnya.ua” on Ukraine’s demographic problems

• “Gazeta.ru” on demography and economics

• “Kommersant” on Russia’s migration attractiveness

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the migration attractiveness of cities of the Volga region

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on Trump’s immigration program

• “Polit.ru” on the consequences of the migrant crisis for Merkel’s party

• “Yle” on the nature of the refugee problem in Scandinavia

• “Der Tagesspiegel” on citizenship as a business model

• “Vedomosti” on a civil dress code

• “Vedomosti” on expats in Russia

• “RBK” on record economic activity

• “Kto v kurse” on male unemployment in Japan

• “Kommersant” on the employment of retirees in Japan

• “Vedomosti” on teleworking

• “TPP-Inform” on youth unemployment

• “TASS” on Caucasian youth

• “Novaya Gazeta” on the deportation of Soviet Germans

• “Life” on marriage contracts

• “Izvestiya” on food consumption norms

• “Polityka” on GMOs as a cure for famine

• “Slon.ru” on well-being and anthropometry

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on infantilism and economics

• “Forbes” on investments in immortality

• “Vox” on the borders of death

• “Kommersant” on mandatory participation in the census

• “Helsingin Sanomat” on the genetic uniqueness of Finns

Read books and magazines

• Social status and the standard of living in the Republic of Belarus

• Children in Azerbaijan 2016

• Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Tajikistan

• Slovenia. Health Systems in Transition

• Indicators of immigrant integration 2015. Settling in

• Through the pages of the journals “Gigiena i sanitariya” (“Hygiene and sanitation”) and “Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsialnoy politiki” (“Journal of social policy research”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Environment”

Demographic digest

• How far do internal migrants really move? Demonstrating a new method for the estimation of intra-zonal distance

• Does second-home ownership trigger migration in later life?

• Internal migration and development: Comparing migration intensities around the world

Profession: researcher

• European population conference 2016: «Demographic change and policy implications»

• “Soviet censuses of 1937 and 1939: problems of analysis”. Seminar at the HSE Institute of Demography

• Happy 60^th birthday to Boris Petrovich Denisov

Student page

• Congratulations to first-year Master’s students setting out on the path of Demography