Covid-19: the contribution of demography

Research Projects
To answer a number of the many questions on the impact of the coronavirus on populations and societies in France and across the world, INED has brought together the entire range of its disciplines and resources. This involves coordinating and supporting a number of projects, including an internet platform dedicated to the daily tracking of deaths due to Covid-19, the conducting of new surveys, participation in several international research projects, and wide diffusion of scientific publications. INED began designing and running a number of major, innovative research projects of its own and jointly with other institutions as early as March 2020. The projects encompass all stages in the life cycles and investigate a variety of lockdown-related issues, including home schooling and children’s behavior, housing and living conditions, family solidarity, remote working, the quality and resilience of maternal and neonatal care services, and end-of-life and death in nursing homes.
Publication
The research projects on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have produced a considerable amount of scientific findings. INED has compiled a selection of articles to help you understand certain phenomena better; for example, the impact of the health crisis on life expectancy and excess mortality in France; its repercussions on the health of essential and low-wage workers; the worsening of social inequalities due to the pandemic by family origin and minority “invisibility,” particularly in the département of Seine-Saint-Denis immediately outside Paris; and ethno-racial inequality in the United States in connection with the pandemic.
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Research Projects
EpiCOV

EpiCOV

Knowing the population’s immune status to guide public decision-making

The aim of the EpiCoV project is to characterize the prevalence of the epidemic at the national and "département" scales, measure the effects of living conditions on exposure to the virus and, conversely, the effects of the epidemic on living conditions. The “Epidemiology and living conditions” survey or EpiCoV was launched by INSERM and DREES (the statistics office of the French Ministry of Health and Solidarity), with assistance from INSEE and Santé-Publique-France, to analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The EpiCoV team includes epidemiologists, sociologists, demographers, and economists from INSERM, INED, the CNRS, and the Universities of Paris-Saclay and Paris-Dauphine.

The survey follows how the epidemic evolves by questioning the same respondents over several waves. The first was conducted partially on internet and partially by telephone from May 2 to June 2, 2020, thereby covering the end of the first general lockdown period, which began in March, and the first few weeks of reopening, which began on May 11. INSEE used the FIDELI (Demographic files on housing and individuals) database to draw a random sample of 135,000 people aged 15 or over on January 1, 2020, and living in ordinary?/typical? [le lecteur va-t-il savoir ce qu’est un “ménage ordinaire”?] household structures in metropolitan France, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Reunion. The second survey section was conducted from late October to late November 2020.
The 3rd wave took place June-August 2021.
The 4th wave will take place in May 2022

Funders: Inserm, Drees, Ministère de la recherche, Région Ile de France.

INED participants : Ariane Pailhé, Emilie Counil,Guillaume Le Roux, Catherine Bonvalet, Anne Lambert.

To learn more about this project and read the initial results, click here [FR]

Online :June 2021