Research topics

Households, fertility, the Second Demographic Transition

Ongoing projects

  • Second births in Europe: explaining recent trends, exploring future scenarios (more)
  • Divorce and separation in Flanders. Risk factors, consequences and policy implications (more)
  • Generations and Gender Survey (more)
  • Census monograph on fertility and nuptiality (more)

Finished projects

  • TransEurope Research Network (more)
  • Multilinks. How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration (more)
  • Globalisation, job insecurity and family formation (more)
  • Single child families and childlessness during the first and second demographic transition (more)
  • Census monograph on households and families (more)
  • Postponement and recuperation of fertility in Belgium, 1960-2001 (more)
  • Family values and social cohesion (more)


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Mortality, causes of death, health

Ongoing projects

  • Socio-economic health differences in the Brussels-Capital Region: research on the impact of nationality of origin and education among adolescents and young adults (more)
  • INEQ Cities (more)

Finished projects

  • Ethnic health differentials: diabetes in Belgians of Turkish and Moroccan origin (more)
  • BeLHIS (Belgian Longitudinal Health Information System) (more)
  • Tackling Health Inequality in Belgium (more)
  • Atlas of supply and demand in wellbeing and health in the Brussels Capital Region (more)
  • Differential mortality (more)
  • Census monograph on health care and subjective health (more)

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(Sub)regional population dynamics, population geography

Ongoing projects

  • Census monograph on internal migration (more)
  • Population atlas of Belgium (more)

Finished projects

  • Demographic Change: New Opportunities in Shrinking Europe (DC NOISE) (more)
  • Social and economic impact of ageing in Flanders and Europe (more)
  • The Brussels Capital Region and its habitat: a structural and prospective study (more)
  • Population atlas of the Brussels Capital Region based on register and census data (more)
  • Compilation of a background paper (Witboek Stedenbeleid - Flemish Government) on migrations and alternative population projections for diverse subregions and for the 13 regional cities of Flanders (more)
  • Differential internal migration according to socio-economic characteristics, household characteristics and dwelling characteristics (more)
  • Environment report Flanders MIRA 2000. Municipal population projections (more)

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Ethnic minorities

Ongoing projects

  • Toward a European Society: Single Market, Binational Marriages, and Social Group Formation in Europe (EUMARR) (more)

Finished projects

  • Surveys among Turkish and Moroccan populations of Belgium (more)

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Data banks

Finished projects

  • OSIRIS (more)
  • Microcensus 2006 (more)
  • Interface function General Socio-economic Survey 2001 (more)
  • Construction and actualisation of a database 'household dwellings' (more)
  • Construction of the national data banks on migration, mortality, fertility and household positions (more)

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