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La Revue Quetelet / Quetelet Journal (RQJ) is a bilingual (English and French) thematic journal of the Demographic Research Center of the University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. The RQJ accepts original contributions that follow the usual format of the empirical articles but also documents that have unusual formats: review of theoretical literature, methodological articles, advocacy for heterodox or controversial ideas, negative results, reproduction of previously published results, results description of new data, unusual data, mixed methods, etc.
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Each article published in the Quetelet Journal is available online, upon receipt of the final version accepted by the Editorial Board and the author. For the articles published in 2013 and 2014, a biennial paper version also compiles the articles available online.
Articles are subject to a critical appraisal process. Any article proposal is transmitted anonymously (double-blind) to at least two readers, including a member of the Reading Committee. The decision of the Drafting Committee and the comments of the evaluators are transmitted to the authors. The article is published only if the author takes into account the critical remarks made by the evaluators and the Editorial Board. The publication must be approved by all co-authors.
During the critical appraisal process, any author agrees not to withdraw his text and not to submit it to another publication. The journal will not publish an article already published or submitted for publication in another journal or book.
The article submission process is to be carried out via the website dedicated to the Quetelet Review. It is also via this platform that the follow-up procedure of submission, reading, modification and exchanges with the authors will be carried out.
Published articles
Only the issues published in 2013 and 2014 were published in electronic and paper versions. The "paper" versions can still be ordered directly on the website of Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
Now the articles are only published online and can be found on the website dedicated to Revue Quetelet / Quetelet Journal.
List of articles already published in the Revue Quetelet / Quetelet Journal:
Vol. 10, n°1, 2022
- Constance Beaufils "Les retraits féminins du marché du travail : un fait social invisibilisé par la catégorie statistique de l’inactivité professionnelle", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 10, n°1, pp. 1-25.
- Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs, "Brakes and drivers of differences and marriages during Advent and Lent from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries in western and central Belgium", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 9, n°1, pp. 1-21.
- Christophe Vandeschrick, "Taux de croissance annuel moyen via une formule géométrique.Toujours, parfois, jamais ?", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 9, n°1, pp. 23-45.
- Linh Hoang Khanh Dang, Nadine Ouellette, France Meslé, Michel Poulain, "Trajectoire des taux de mortalité aux âges extrêmes de la vie. Une représentation paramétrique des données récentes de la France, de la Belgique et du Québec", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 9, n° 1, pp. 47-64.
- Ester Rizzi, Alice Rees, "Belgian family policy from a comparative perspective: does it support fertility and gender equity?", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 9, n°1, pp. 65-99.
- Thierry Eggerickx, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Christohe Vandeschrick, Cécile Donadille, "Inégalités sociales de mortalité au-delà de 65 ans. Le cas de la Belgique", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 9, n°1, pp. 101-125
Vol. 8, n° 2, 2020, Special issue Belgium
- Thierry Eggerickx, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Christophe Vandeschrick, "Mortality in Belgium from nineteenth century to today. Variations according to age, sex, and social and spatial contexts", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 2, pp. 7-59.
- Sophie Vause, "1997-2017: An assessment of two decades of immigration in Belgium", Revue Quetelet/Quetlet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 2, pp. 61-99.
- Richard Kapend, Jakub Bijak, Andrew Hinde, "The Democratic Republic of the Congo armed conflict 1998-2004: Assessing excess mortality based on factual and cournter-factual projection scenarios", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 1, pp. 7-35.
- France Meslé, Jacques Valin, "Les causes de décès aux grands âges en France : évolution récente", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 1, pp. 37-72.
- Maude Crouzet, Amélie Carrère, Caroline Laborde, Didier Breton, Emmanuelle Cambois, "Différences d’espérance de vie sans incapacité dans les départements français : premiers résultats à partir de l’enquête Vie Quotidienne et Santé", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 1, pp. 73-101.
- Sandra Brée, "Divorce trends and variations along the rural-urban gradient in France, 1884-1913", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 1, pp. 103-138.
- José Henrique Costa Monteiro-da-Silva, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, Diana Sawyer, Fabiano Neves Alves Pereira, "Rural-Urban health and mortality differentials in Brazil, 2010-2013", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 8, n° 1, 139-163.
- Anne E. Calvès, "«No money, no honey»? Poverty and young men’s unmarried relationships in urban Burkina Faso", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 7, n° 1, pp. 7-26.
- Audrey F. Lai, Andrew Noymer, Tsuio Tai, "The geometry of mortality change: Convex hulls for demographic analysis", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 7, n° 1, pp. 27-70.
- Anne-Laure Bertrand, "Refugees’ trajectories in Switzerland: Impact of residence permits on labour market integration", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 7, n° 1, pp. 71-99.
- Mathieu Buelens, "Transnational analysis of local fertility: A spatial organisation depending on metropolitan contexts and national borders", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 7, n° 1, pp. 101-133.
- Geneviève Cézard, "Evidencing the gap between health expectancy and life expectancy for ethnic groups in Scotland", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 7, n° 1, pp. 135-162.
- Jean-François Léger, "Le logement, variable centrale de l’exercice de prospective démographique à l’échelle locale", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 6, n° 1, pp. 7-33.
- Charlotte Leroy, Dominique Dubourg, Anouck Billiet, Christelle Senterre, Virginie Van Leeuw, Wei-Hong Zhang, Yvon Englert, "Effets de l’environnement de vie sur les associations entre déterminants individuels et santé périnatale en Wallonie (Belgique)", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 6, n° 1, pp. 35-53.
- Ingrid Schockaert, Edwin Pelfrene, Edith Lodewijckx, "Local ageing patterns in Flanders", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 6, n° 1, pp. 55-72.
- Jon Anson, "Estimating local mortality tables for small areas: An application using Belgian sub-arrondissements", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 6, n° 1, pp. 73-97.
- Juan Galeano, Jordi Bayona-i-Carrasco, "Residential segregation and clustering dynamics of migrants in the metropolitan area of Barcelona: A demo-spatial analysis at the census tract level", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 6, n° 1, pp. 99-127.
Vol. 5, n° 2, 2017, Special issue Belgium
- Marie Vandresse, "The critical role of assumptions in population projections: The case of Belgium", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n° 2, pp. 7-35.
- Eli Nomes, Jan Van Bavel, "Education and marriage: The shift from hypergamy to hypogamy in Belgium, a 20th century cohort analysis", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n°2, pp. 37-67.
- Mélanie Bourguignon, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Catherine Gourbin, "The ageing of populations in Belgium: Current situation and perspectives", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n°2, pp. 69-114.
- Sandra Brée, Thierry Eggerickx, Jean-Paul Sanderson, "Low fertility, childlessness and family changes in the first half of the 20th century in France and Belgium", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 7-31.
- Catherine Gourbin, Guillaume Wunsch, Lorise Moreau, Agnès Guillaume and the ECAF team, "Direct and indirect path leading to contraceptive use in urban Africa. An application to Burkina Faso, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 33-71.
- John Tomkinson, Didier Breton, Magali Mazuy, "Entry into motherhood during adolescence in France. A sociodemographic and spatial analysis of the determinants and profiles", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 73-98.
- Armelle Klein, Frédéric Sandron, "Vieillissement de la population et politiques publiques réunionnaises à l’échelle infra-territoriale", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 99-125.
- Julien Charlier, Marc Debuisson, Jean-Paul Duprez, Isabelle Reginster, "Contribution méthodologique à l’analyse des mouvements résidentiels intercommunaux wallons par la construction de bassins résidentiels (1994-2014)", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 127-149.
- Bruno Masquelier, Alessandra Garbero, "Educational differentials in adult mortality in low- and middle-income countries", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 4, n° 1, pp. 7-28.
- Michel Poulain, Luc Dal, An Herm, "Mortality risk by living arrangements for the elderly Belgian population", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 4, n° 1, pp. 29-56.
- Anne-Emmanuèle Calvès, "Generational control over young urban couples in West Africa: Involvement of elders in union formation and infant care in Ouagadougou", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 4, n° 1, pp. 57-72.
- Dudley L. Poston, Cristina Elizabeth Cruz, "Voluntary, involuntary and temporary childlessness in the United States", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 4, n° 1, pp. 73-99.
- Isabel Côté, Kévin Lavoie, "De la procréation 'assistée par' autrui à la procréation 'négociée avec' autrui : dialogue autour de la place du tiers donneur dans le projet parental de mères lesbiennes au Québec", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 4, n° 1, pp. 101-121.
- Jacques Véron, "'Eclairer l’action' ? La démographie selon Alfred Sauvy au fil des rééditions de La population", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 3, n° 1, pp. 7-49.
- Jean-Paul Sanderson, "Retour des retraités en ville : Mythe ou réalité ? Étude des migrations des 50-69 ans à Bruxelles", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 3, n° 1, pp. 51-74.
- Patrick Deboosere, Hadewijch Vandenheede, "Reversing the Malthusian paradigm on retirement age", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 3, n° 1, pp. 75-95.
- Andreu Domingo, "Migration as a Global Risk: The World Economic Forum and Neoliberal Discourse on Demography", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 3, n° 1, pp. 97-117.
- Myriam de Loenzien, Géraldine Duthé, Lama Kabbanji, Armelle Andro, Dominique Diguet, Catherine Sluse, Delphine Arnoux, "Les enjeux actuels des études de population : une analyse des thèses de doctorat soutenues en France", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 3, n° 1, pp. 119-144.
- Faustina Frempong-Ainguah, Allan Hill, "Reliability, validity and responsiveness of the short form-36 health survey: Findings from the women's health study of Accra, Ghana", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 2, PUL, pp. 7-29.
- Daniel Courgeau, Jakub Bijak, Robert Franck, Eric Silverman, "Are the four Baconian idols still alive in demography?", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 2, PUL, pp. 31-59.
- Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane Bassiahi Soura, Géraldine Duthé, Bruno Lankoande, Roch Millogo, "Are the urban poor really worse off? Socieconomic differentials in adult cause specific mortality at the periphery of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 2, PUL, pp. 61-80.
- Hannelore De Grande, Hadewijch Vandenheede, Patrick Deboosere, "Data inventory of health inequalities among adolescents and young adults in the Brussels-Capital Region", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 2, PUL, pp. 81-119.
- Ann Kiragu, "Maternal morbidity in Kenya: Measurement, contributions and limitations of DHS data", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 2, PUL, pp. 121-145.
- Sandra Brée, "Urbanisation, immigration et fécondité en région parisienne au 19ème siècle", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 1, PUL, pp. 7-37.
- Thierry Eggerickx, Rafael Costa, Jean-Paul Sanderson, "La fécondité des migrantes internes en Belgique. Une approche longitudinale et spatiale à partir des données rétrospectives des recensements", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 1, PUL, pp. 39-65.
- Antonio Lopez-Gay, "Population growth and re-urbanization in Spanish inner cities: The role of internal migration and residential mobility", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 1, PUL, pp. 67-92.
- Jordi Bayona-I-Carrasco, Fernando Gil-Alonso, Isabel Pujadas-I-Rúbies, "Suburbanisation versus recentralisation. Changes in the effect of international migration inflows on the largest Spanish metropolitan areas (2000-2010)", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n°1, PUL, pp. 93-118.
- Aline Désesquelles, Elena Demuru, Viviana Egidi, Luisa Frova, France Meslé, Marilena Pappagallo, Michele Antonio Salvatore, "Cause-specific mortality analysis: Is the underlying cause of death sufficient?", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 2, n° 1, PUL, pp. 119-135.
- Michael J. White, "Moving Migration into Century 21", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 1, n° 1, PUL, pp. 7-31.
- Adrien Remund, "Croissance urbaine et durée des épisodes migratoires : l’exemple de Genève au 19ème siècle", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 1, n° 1, PUL, pp. 33-49.
- Reto Schumacher, Koen Matthijs, Sarah Moreels, "Migration and reproduction in an urbanizing context. Family life courses in 19th century Antwerp and Geneva", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 1, n° 1, PUL, pp. 51-72.
- Mathias Lerch, "Urbanisation et transition de la fécondité en Albanie", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 1, n° 1, pp. 73-93.
- Cédric Duchêne-Lacroix, Nicola Hilti, Helmut Schad, "L’habiter multilocal : discussion d’un concept émergent et aperçu de sa traduction empirique en Suisse", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 1, n° 1, PUL, pp. 95-121.
- Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane Soura, Bruno Lankoande, "Migration et santé à la périphérie de Ouagadougou. Une première analyse exploratoire", Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, Vol. 1, n° 1, PUL, pp. 123-150.
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Editor-in-Chief
- Philippe Bocquier, Centre de recherche en démographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Associate Editors
- Mélanie Bourguignon, Centre de recherche en démographie Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Sandra Bree, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LAboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (CNRS-LARHRA), France
- Joan Damiens, Centre de recherche en démographie Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Yoann Doignon, UMR 7363 SAGE, Université de Strasbourg, France / Centre de recherche en démographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Thierry Eggerickx, Centre de recherche en démographie Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Laboratoire Population Environnment Développement (LPED), France / Centre de recherche en démographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Michel Oris, Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'étude des vulnérabilités, Université de Genève, Switzerland
- Christine Schnor, Centre de recherche en démographie Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Editorial Advisory Board
- Sylvie Gadeyne, Interface Demography, Vrij Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
- Sabine Henry, Institute of Life-Earth-Environment (ILEE), Université de Namur, Belgium
- Mathias Lerch, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) Rostock, Germany
- Marion Leturcq, INED, France.
- Clémentine Rossier, Institut de démographie et socioéconomie de l'Université de Genève (IDESO), Switzerland
- Nathalie Sawadogo, Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Bruno Schoumaker, Centre de recherche en démographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Marie Vandresse, Bureau fédéral du Plan (BfP), Belgium