SOCIAL SITUATION OBSERVATORY DEMOGRAPHY MONITOR 2005 Consortium Board: Nico van Nimwegen (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute – NIDI, The Hague) Gijs Beets (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute – NIDI, The Hague) Jørgen Mortensen (Centre for European Policy Studies – CEPS, Brussels, Belgium) Anna Ruzik (Center for Social and Economic Research –CASE, Warsaw, Poland) Ulrich Schuh (Institute for Advanced Studies – HIS, Vienna, Austria) Erika Schulz (German Institute for Economic Research – DIW, Berlin) Contract title: Establishment of a European observatory with the aim to inform the social policy debate and to provide analytical input for the Report on the social situation in the European Union – Lot 1 – Demography Contract reference No: VC/2004/0334 The Hague, Netherlands, December 2005