French Demographic Maps

[Hashemite]

[Vasall des Midas]

Cool map.

[big bad fab]

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=circo_leg-2012

Here are some demographic data from official INSEE, at the constituency level, inside new boundaries.

You've got sex, age, nationality (yep, number of foreigners), professional activity, etc.

Some maps in the making, Hash ?

[Hashemite]

Foreign population is the only one which is kind of interesting

[homelycooking]

Why is there a relatively higher concentration in interior Aquitaine, Haute-Vienne and Tarn-et-Garonne? And what nationality are they? Spanish?

[Χahar]

Where are all the foreigners in Guiana from?

Why is there a relatively higher concentration in interior Aquitaine, Haute-Vienne and Tarn-et-Garonne? And what nationality are they? Spanish?

Pieds-noirs, perhaps?

[redcommander]

Foreign population is the only one which is kind of interesting

Is there any demographic breakdown of the foreign population based on country of origin? I know the French census doesn't do so, but I believe there's a few private companies that do.

[redcommander]

Where are all the foreigners in Guiana from?

Why is there a relatively higher concentration in interior Aquitaine, Haute-Vienne and Tarn-et-Garonne? And what nationality are they? Spanish?

Pieds-noirs, perhaps?

Aren't Pieds-noirs technically French citizens rather than foreigners though?

[big bad fab]

Where are all the foreigners in Guiana from?

Why is there a relatively higher concentration in interior Aquitaine, Haute-Vienne and Tarn-et-Garonne? And what nationality are they? Spanish?

Pieds-noirs, perhaps?

- Surinam.

- In the SW, I suppose, in Dordogne and Lot (former Quercy before French revolutionaries erased the past ), that's the British who bought many fine old houses...
In Burgundy (see Saône-et-Loire, but also the north of Rhône), same process, with some wine castles.

That's the same probably in Côtes d'Armor and Orne, though houses are less fine there
I'm surprised that Calvados and Seine-Maritime aren't more coloured, but they've got a bigger population, hence a smaller proportion.

As for Lot-et-Garonne (though it's more mixed here: also some British) and Tarn-et-Garonne, it's probable more about poor workers (from Mediterranean countries) in agriculture (fruits, vegetables). Same thing in Aude and Hérault (wine).

[Hashemite]

The Insee details foreigners by nationality: http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=99&ref_id=t_0405D

In Lot-et-Garonne,
30.6% of the foreign population comes from "another EU country" (UK probably)
27.2% of the foreign population comes from Morocco
20.9% of the foreign population comes from Portugal

Tarn-et-Garonne
29.4% are from Morocco
28.5% are from "another EU country"
12.6% are from Portugal

Haute-Vienne is largely from the EU with a few Algerians.

[redcommander]

The Insee details foreigners by nationality: http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=99&ref_id=t_0405D

In Lot-et-Garonne,
30.6% of the foreign population comes from "another EU country" (UK probably)
27.2% of the foreign population comes from Morocco
20.9% of the foreign population comes from Portugal

Tarn-et-Garonne
29.4% are from Morocco
28.5% are from "another EU country"
12.6% are from Portugal

Haute-Vienne is largely from the EU with a few Algerians.
 

Foreigners only make up 5.8% of the population, and the Front National is making it seem as though the country is being overrun with immigrants. That's probably a smaller percentage of the total population than Germany or the UK. Even Paris's immigrant population is relatively low at below 20%

[Hashemite]

Those only include foreigners - people who lack French citizenship. There are many more French citizens who are first-generation immigrants from North Africa or Europe or at least of North African/European ancestry. They aren't counted in these statistics.

[Hashemite]

Epic map time, demographic version

[Hashemite]

Nobody seems to care but here are two maps which are key in understanding political traditions





"agglomeree" meant all those people who lived in the "chef-lieu" of the commune (the village's core) while "eparse" meant all those who lived outside the chef-lieu.

Stuff like this is 'eparse'; stuff like this is agglomerated. Not that there aren't differences; the bocage is way different from the Limousin.

[Sibboleth]

Oh, I think we all care. Amazing stuff; diolch.

[ObserverIE]

"agglomeree" meant all those people who lived in the "chef-lieu" of the commune (the village's core) while "eparse" meant all those who lived outside the chef-lieu.

Stuff like this is 'eparse'; stuff like this is agglomerated. Not that there aren't differences; the bocage is way different from the Limousin.

The equivalent terms in English would be nucleated (agglomérée) and dispersed (éparse) settlement.

[Bro-mentum]

These latest maps are bloody brilliant - especially the agriculture ones.

[Colbert]

the nucleated map like the vote FN map. Some explainaitions?

[Californian Tony]

This is excellent. The economic sectors map is especially great.

[batmacumba]

the nucleated map like the vote FN map. Some explainaitions?

Poujadiste heritage?

[Hashemite]

the nucleated map like the vote FN map. Some explainaitions?

Poujadiste heritage?

Most certainly not! Look at the Poujadist map in 1956. In the bulk of cases, it is a world away from the modern FN map. The FN is by and large a urban-suburban-industrialized ruralism party, the UFF was a heavily rural affair.

[batmacumba]

'Round here, urban-suburban-industrialized ruralism is a trend of populations which has migrated from rural communities. And the only lepenist I know (who, BTW, is married to a pardo Brazilian and, thus, have a mixed up kid, go figure) comes from a rural family.
I just cannot understand why someone would support a political thought which is harmfull to his own family, if this wasn't some kind of political heritage. But, what can we do, humans are weird.

[Hashemite]

Not perfect (especially in the southeast), but there are some pretty clear political patterns on this map: % of individually exploited farms in 2010

[Colbert]

theire is no political connexion between individually exploited farms and ideology.

The connexion is more hill/moutain country vs plain country (globally speaking)


(with the surprising exception of Jura, Larzac and Armorican west mountains)

[big bad fab]

For once, I agree with Colbert.

As for Armorican mountains, well, there are absolutely no muntains there
As for Jura, it's not an agricultural mountain.
Larzac is more surprising.