Life expectancy in Germany based on the 2011 census: was the healthy migrant effect merely an artefact?
Titelübersetzung:Lebenserwartung in Deutschland auf Basis des Zensus 2011: war der Healthy-Migrant-Effekt nur ein Artefakt?
Autor/in:
Zur Nieden, Felix; Sommer, Bettina
Quelle: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 41 (2016) 2, S 145-174
Inhalt: "The Federal Statistical Office's 2010/12 general life table is the first to provide results on life expectancy based on census data for reunified Germany. This article therefore examines the question of how the revisions of the population figures from the 2011 census affected the measured life expectancy. To do so, we analysed both the official life tables based on the old intercensal population updates before the census and those based on the population data from the 2011 census. The method used to calculate the census-adjusted 2010/12 general life table was also transferred to separate life tables drawn up for the German and the foreign population. In this way, findings on the so-called 'healthy migrant effect' can be discussed, ruling out possible errors in the intercensal population updates. These errors had previously been cited as the main causes for a distinctly longer life expectancy among the foreign population compared with the German population. As expected, a census-based calculation for the total population and for the German population resulted in only minor revisions to the life expectancy figures. The use of the census results does, however, distinctly alter the life expectancy of foreign women and men. An advantage of over 5 years in life expectancy at birth, measured on the basis of the old population data, needs to be revised to about 2.9 years for men and 2.1 years for women based on the 2011 census. The healthy migrant effect therefore cannot be traced back solely to data artefacts from the old intercensal population updates - even with revised data, the foreign population shows marked survival advantages." (author's abstract). Online Appendix: http://dx.doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2016-06en. Documenation: http://dx.doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2016-07en
Schlagwörter:Bevölkerungsentwicklung; Gesundheit; Datengewinnung; Lebenserwartung; German; alien; migrant; mortality; life expectancy; Ausländer; Datenqualität; Migrant; Federal Republic of Germany; population development; census; Sterblichkeit; Deutscher; data quality; Volkszählung; data capture; health; census effects; healthy migrant effect
Draußen vor der Tür: Exklusion auf dem Berliner Wohnungsmarkt
Titelübersetzung:Outside the front door: exclusion on the housing market in Berlin
Autor/in:
Barwick, Christine
Quelle: WZB-Mitteilungen, (2011) 134, S 13-15
Inhalt: "Werden Menschen – etwa weil es Arbeitsabläufe erleichtert – in Kategorien eingeordnet, so kann dies zu sozialer Ungleichheit führen oder diese verstärken. Dies belegt eine Untersuchung von drei städtischen Wohnungsbaugesellschaften in Berlin. Hier stellte sich ganz konkret die Frage: Wird jeder Wohnungssuchende tatsächlich als Wohnung suchender Mensch gesehen oder primär als Einheimischer oder Migrant, als Mann oder Frau, als Christ oder Muslim – und je nach Einordnung begünstigt oder benachteiligt?"[Autorenreferat]
Inhalt: "Social inequality is (re)produced through the application of categories. If people are assigned to certain groups, this can – for example – speed up work procedures. Research in three Berlin social housing associations supports this hypothesis. The central question is: do employees of these housing associations consider applicants for housing really as human beings in search of an apartment, or are these applicants primarily seen as natives or migrants, men or women, Christians or Muslims – and are they favored or disadvantaged along these categories?"[author´s abstract]
Einzeldaten der Bevölkerungsstatistik: Wanderungsbewegungen und Einbürgerungen in Deutschland
Autor/in:
Richter, Alexander
Quelle: Statistisches Monatsheft Baden-Württemberg, (2007) 1, S 22-29
Schlagwörter:Bevölkerungsstatistik; population statistics; Migration; migration; Federal Republic of Germany; Datengewinnung; data capture; Wohnort; place of residence; Altersgruppe; age group; Einbürgerung; naturalization; Binnenwanderung; internal migration; Außenwanderung; external migration; gender