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In this paper we present indicators of household structure for 26 of the 27 countries of the post-enlargement European … Union. As well as broad indicators of household type, we present statistics on single-person and extended-family households …, and on the households of children and older people. Our main aim is to assess the extent to which household structure …
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This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid …-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the … close relationship between household emigration and different kinds of short-term stresses, either economic, epidemiologic …
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This paper examines the relationship between home-leaving intensities of young adults and the rapid social, economic, and demographic changes that took place in post-World War II Japan. By using event-history modeling, the study shows that the declines in sibling numbers and in rural residence...
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The interconnections of family transformation, childrearing and fertility behaviour are explored. Data were generated through nine focus groups organized among the Ogu and content analyzed. The analysis reveals that although the family system is still largely dominated by extended structure, the...
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Population aging produces changes in the availability of kin with uncertain implications for extended living arrangements. We propose a highly stylized model that can be used to analyze and project age-specific proportions of adults living in extended and nuclear households. The model is applied...
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We investigate how leaving the parental home differs between three countries with different welfare-state and housing systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany. Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home to live with and without a partner. We find that,...
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marriage/union formation and dissolution in the future years in the two-sex family household projection model is proposed. The … procedures proposed in this article are practically useful and can be applied in both macro and micro models for family household …
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values and attitudes. Other domains covered by the survey include gender relationships, household composition and housing …
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