The European Tribune is a forum for thoughtful dialogue of European and international issues. You are invited to post comments and your own articles.
Please REGISTER to post.
I'm sure you can find the exact numbers over at INED or at INSEE. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
By sex and age: recent data 65 and over: Total 10,111,093; Male: 4,165,027; Female: 5,910,955
If 14:1 is not "near unanimity", I don't know what is. Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
What percentage of France's 65+ population is female?
65 and over: Total 10,111,093; Male: 4,165,027; Female: 5,910,955 What percentage of France's 65+ population is female?
I think we would have to eliminate the possibility that women or men voted 100% for anybody. That doesn't happen. You've said it's nigh-impossible for women to have split 50-50. It seems likely that one of two things happened: (a) a large majority of women and men voted for Sarkozy, in roughly equal proportions, or (b) a majority of both women and men voted for Sarkozy, but a larger majority of women did.
We have no evidence (that I know of) that (a) is not true, but everyone here seems to be assuming that (b) is the case. It would not surprise me if (b) was in fact true, but I just wanted to note that we do not have the data to support that, and if it's true, we don't know how wide the gap between senior men and senior women was. Without that data, all this speculaton about older women being overwhelmingly more conservative and listening to their priests more is not terribly constructive.
Really, all we know is that a significant majority of older people voted for Sarkozy.
Which I think is rather strange.
Overall, men break 47:53 for Sarkozy, and women 48:52. Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
About here, I think. Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
by Oui - Apr 20
by Oui - Apr 191 comment
by Oui - Apr 197 comments
by Oui - Apr 18
by Oui - Apr 17
by Oui - Apr 162 comments
by Oui - Apr 1618 comments
by Oui - Apr 156 comments
by Oui - Apr 14
by Oui - Apr 145 comments
by Oui - Apr 131 comment
by Oui - Apr 124 comments
by Oui - Apr 112 comments
by Oui - Apr 10
by Oui - Apr 93 comments
by Oui - Apr 91 comment
by Oui - Apr 83 comments
by Oui - Apr 69 comments
by Oui - Apr 6