"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1009 – 1010
In the issue: EU-27 households, 2009-2022. Value No. 1: towards the Year of the Family. 2 out of 3 Russians provide financial assistance to their parents. Marry an IT specialist: half of Russian women surveyed want to date an IT specialist. The peak of productivity and career is at 47. Pensioners rate at what age they worked best. On the boundaries of youth.
· EU-27 households, 2009-2022
o The number of private households in the EU-27 increased by 9% between 2009 and 2022, the average household size decreased to 2.2 people
o The number of households with one adult increased by 30%, those with an adult couple by only 4%
o The share of households with children decreased from 28% in 2009 to 24% in 2022
o Among the EU-27 population 18 years and older, the proportion living alone increased to 20%, the proportion living in couples without children increased to 27%.
o Among women 65 years of age and older, the share of people living alone is 41%, among men of the same age - 21%.
· Value No. 1: towards the Year of the Family
· 2 out of 3 Russians provide financial assistance to their parents
· Marry an IT specialist: half of Russian women surveyed want to date an IT specialist
· The peak of productivity and career is at 47. Pensioners rate at what age they worked best
· On the boundaries of youth
· Natural population decline in Russia from January to September came to 352,000 people
· By the end of the century, the population in Russia may fall below 100 million people
· Russian families are increasingly less likely to decide to have a second child
· Female senator calls for reorienting girls from education to childbirth
· State Duma deputy against abandoning education in favor of having children
· ASI proposes to make progressive support for the birth of children a basic principle
· Matvienko proposes to give families an apartment at the birth of a third child
· Volodin called on deputies to refrain from unacceptable ideas on the topic of fertility
· Infant mortality in Russia decreases to 4.1 cases per thousand newborns
· Infant mortality in Moscow has more than halved since 2010
· Duma proposal to ban adoption in countries with legal gender reassignment
· State Duma adopts law on increasing pensions in 2024
· One in five Russians has experienced homelessness
· Half of small and medium-sized businesses use services of the self-employed
· Migrant children will be tested on their knowledge of the Russian language and forced to study more
· Mortality rate of Russians from neoplasms has decreased by 5.6% over 4 years
· Russia sees record lows in incidence and mortality from tuberculosis
· Outbreaks of whooping cough in the Chelyabinsk and Tomsk regions, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan
· Pyotr Tolstoy keeps his own statistics on abortions
· Lawmakers should stop harassing doctors about inducing abortions
· Abortion ban could revive market for clandestine abortions
· Ministry of Health wants to ban IVF under compulsory medical insurance in clinics performing less than 100 cycles per year
· Russians’ diet affects life expectancy
· “Family studies” may become a compulsory subject in Russian schools in 2024
· By 2033, the population of Ukraine could range from 26 to 35 million
· Fear of climate disaster influences decision to have children
· Finland sends military to border to combat influx of migrants
· Finland closes all checkpoints on Russian border except one
· Estonia preparing to close border with Russia immediately after Finland
· Trump plans to implement measures “unprecedented in American history” to combat illegal migration
· A third of deaths from non-melanoma skin cancer are due to sun exposure
· People over 65 are no longer at high risk for Covid
· Global measles cases rise 18% in 2022
· Virologists expect deadly new pandemic
· Educated people are less likely to have heart disease
· Is loneliness as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day?
· Vatican allows representatives of sexual minorities to take part in church sacraments
· Novye Izvestia, News.ru, RBK and Kommersant on measures to increase birth rate: from exemption from personal income tax to free apartments
· Novye Izvestia on benefits for families with many children
· Esli byt’ tochnym on the decline in fertility and the number of births in Russia
· TASS on the decline in fertility in the USA
· Novye Izvestia, Afisha Daily, RBK and Kommersant on the proposal to ban abortions and its consequences
· News.ru and Kommersant on the refusal to perform abortions in private clinics
· Novye Izvestia and News.ru on the proposal to ban inducement to abortion
· Forbes on abortion rights
· Izvestia on a blacklist of alimony debtors
· RBK on the "aging" of the labor market in Russia
· Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the shortage of personnel in the labor market
· Kommersant on the natural level of unemployment
· Kommersant on the desire for part-time work among schoolchildren
· Kommersant on the number of scientists
· Novye Izvestia on deporting migrants due to the crimes of their children
· Kommersant on the language adaptation of migrant children
· Novye Izvestia on naturalized migrants from Tajikistan
· Kommersant on migrantophobia
· RBK on the values of Muscovites and migrants from Central Asia
· RBK and Fontanka.ru on refugees crossing the Russian-Finnish border
· RBK on Russian " golden visa"
· Novye Izvestia on compulsory medical insurance for migrants
· Novye Izvestia on new strain of coronavirus
· Novye Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the fight against smoking
· Kommersant on the problems of cancer patients
· Kommersant on factors in the development of cancer
· Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the increase in measles incidence and vaccine shortages
· RBK on the influence of nutrition on life expectancy
· Kommersant on the lack of state funds to treat hepatitis C
· Kommersant on the possibility of being screened for hepatitis C as part of state medical exam
· Novye Izvestia on reducing compensation for disabled people purchasing their own rehabilitation equipment
· Novye Izvestia on underfunding of medicine
· Kommersant on the suspension of the use of artificial intelligence in medicine
· Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the revision of national projects
· Novye Izvestia on the fight against the LGBT movement
· Esli byt’ tochnym on improving the subjective well-being of adolescents
· Novye Izvestia on the economic restrictions of home ownership
· Health at a Glance 2023
· Malignant neoplasms in the northwestern federal district of Russia (morbidity, mortality, reliability of registration, patient survival)
· Youth of Kazakhstan 2018-2022
· Population and social indicators of the CIS countries and individual countries of the world. 2019-2022
· Savings of the Russian population: health, employment, standard of living and quality of life
· Through the pages of the magazines Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Regionalnye Issledovaniya (Regional Research)
· Contents of the journal "Population"
· 95 years since the birth of Vladimir Georgievich Kostakov
· In memory of Zh.A. Zayonchkovskaya. Article in the Great Russian Encyclopedia