In this edition we present three studies:

Vulnerabilities of the local environment : impacts on the self-rated health of people living in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area  - presents a methodology to analyse the contextual determinants of health in urban areas and the results achieved through its application to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), at a parish level.

Foreign population overview in the European Union member states (composition by citizenship)  - continues the study on the resident foreigners in the European Union, with a more detailed analysis of this demographic subject at the individual level of the 27 member-states.

Patterns of Marriage among Immigrants in Portugal  -  we examine the intermarriage patterns among five groups of immigrants in Portugal, those who correspond to the majority groups and that are associated with different flows in the Portuguese history of immigration: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Ukraine and Brazil. We use the marriage microdata from the 2005 official national statistics.