This report analyses how some schools in the Canary Islands (primary
schools) and Catalonia (secondary schools) manage to ensure that their
students make progress beyond expectations, despite social vulnerability.
Poor people have a higher probability of facing additional shortages and a
lower probability of suffering an existing shortage than people who are not
poor.
The cheque bebé was a payment designed to incentivise the birth rate,
however its effect was limited. Although it helped some families to decide,
difficulty in reconciling work and motherhood has continued to be the main
obstacle to having more children.
Work-life balance policies that strengthen job stability can contribute to
increasing fertility by improving compatibility between work and
motherhood, but they also pose challenges for female recruitment.
Households in Spain and Portugal underwent significant change between 1991
and 2022. This report shows how the average household size has decreased,
the number of single-person households has increased, and shared living
structures have undergone transformation according to age and gender.