58:40440 Axinn,
William G.; Thornton, Arland. The influence of parental
resources on the timing of the transition to marriage. Social
Science Research, Vol. 21, No. 3, Sep 1992. 261-85 pp. Orlando,
Florida. In Eng.
"It is the aim of this paper to establish the
overall effects of parental resources and marital timing preferences on
the actual timing of the transition to first marriage. Toward this
end, we test the effects of parents' incomes, assets, educations, and
preferences on the timing of marriage....The data used here come from a
systematic probability sample of 1961 birth records chosen to represent
white families who had just given birth to a first, second, or fourth
child in the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area....An initial
personal interview was conducted with the mothers in the winter of
1962, and telephone interviews were conducted in the fall of 1962 and
in 1963, 1966, 1977, 1980, and 1985." The results show that "both
parental financial resources and parental education influence
children's marital behavior. Our analysis also demonstrates that
parental preferences for their children's age at marriage do matter,
but that this influence weakens as the children grow older. Finally,
the analysis indicates that the effects of parents' financial resources
interact with parents' preferences to affect the timing of their
children's transitions to marriage."
Correspondence: W. G.
Axinn, University of Chicago/NORC, Population Research Center, 1155
East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-2799. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
58:40441 Bittles,
Alan H. Consanguineous marriage: current global incidence
and its relevance to demographic research. Population Studies
Center Research Report, No. 90-186, Aug 1990. 11 pp. University of
Michigan, Population Studies Center: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"To determine the current global incidence of consanguineous
unions, data on marriages between second cousins or closer have been
compiled from a variety of published and unpublished sources and are
presented in detailed, tabular form....The specific impact of
consanguinity on parameters including age at marriage and first
livebirth, gross and net fertility, and pre- and postnatal mortality is
considered and assessed."
Correspondence: University of
Michigan, Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Avenue, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40442 Burch,
Thomas K. Modeling remarriage: a simple modification of
Hernes' model of first marriage. Studia Demograficzne, No. 4/106,
1991. 27-33 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
"The model of remarriage
presented in the paper is a modification of the Hernes model of entry
into first marriage in which social pressure to remarry is assumed to
decline linearly until the members in the cohort reach approximate age
75, n years after the average age at divorce for the cohort.
Application of the model to the Canadian data of 1984 shows that males
have greater remarriageability than females which is independent of
cohort whereas older females had very low potential for remarriage.
The results suggest different social pressures to remarry among men and
women of various ages."
Correspondence: T. K. Burch,
University of Western Ontario, Population Studies Centre, London,
Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40443 Calzola,
Luca; Tittarelli, Luigi. Marriage and the family in
Perugia and its surrounding area in the middle of the nineteenth
century. [Matrimonio e famiglia a Perugia e nelle sue campagne
alla meta dell'ottocento.] Studi Storici, No. 2, 1991. 365-82 pp. Rome,
Italy. In Ita.
Marriage patterns and family formation in the
Italian region of Perugia are analyzed using data on marriages
performed between 1838 and 1842 in the city and between 1835 and 1860
in some surrounding areas. The various types of families that
developed in urban and rural areas are
identified.
Correspondence: L. Tittarelli, Universita degli
Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Via A. Pascoli,
C.P. 65/Succ. 1, 06100 Perugia, Italy. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40444 Cohen,
Blair A. Using age at first union to explain the
relationship between cohabitation and divorce. Population Studies
Center Research Report, No. 91-209, Apr 1991. [25] pp. University of
Michigan, Population Studies Center: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"This study examines the effect of age at first union on subsequent
marital stability [in the United States]....Data used for this analysis
come from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households
(NSFH)."
This is a revised version of a paper originally presented
at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America.
Correspondence: University of Michigan, Population
Studies Center, 1225 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1070. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40445 Csernak,
Magdolna. Patterns of first marriage in Finland and
Hungary: a comparative study. Yearbook of Population Research in
Finland, Vol. 30, 1992. 18-32 pp. Helsinki, Finland. In Eng.
"The
main purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature and background
of the difference between the nuptiality pattern in Finland and
Hungary....The emphasis is on the first marriage....The author presents
the marriage trends by using both period and cohort measures. In order
to analyze the changes in the age structure and the intensity of the
first marriage, the classical life table method was applied to cohorts
born between 1945 and 1970."
Correspondence: M. Csernak,
Central Statistical Office, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest,
Hungary. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40446 Durdev,
Branislav S. Nuptiality in the village of Vilovo.
[Nupcijalitet u selu Vilovu.] Stanovnistvo, Vol. 28-29, No. 3-4/1-2,
Jul-Dec/Jan-Jun 1990-1991. 219-26 pp. Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In Scr.
with sum. in Eng.
The author reviews two nuptiality models and
their implications. "The case study on nuptiality in the village of
Vilovo, [Yugoslavia] disputes the existence of only two contrasting
nuptiality models and points to the need to analyze this phenomenon
from both the regional and historical point of
view."
Correspondence: B. S. Durdev, Univerziteta u Novom
Sadu, Prirodno-matematicki Fakultet, Institut za Geografiju, Veljka
Vlahovica 3, Post. fah 7, 21000 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40447 Fratczak,
Ewa. Marital status life table for selected female
cohorts--evidence from Polish retrospective survey 1988 "Life
Course--Family, Occupational and Migratory Biography" Studia
Demograficzne, No. 3/105, 1991. 99-110 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
This paper presents estimated marital-status life tables for
selected female cohorts in Poland. The period covered is from 1909 to
1943. The tables were constructed using data from a 1988 retrospective
survey.
Correspondence: E. Fratczak, Szkola Glowna
Handlowa, Al. Niepodleglosci 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40448
Fresel-Lozey, Michel. New living arrangements:
methodological problems. [Les nouvelles formes de conjugalite:
problemes methodologiques.] Population, Vol. 47, No. 3, May-Jun 1992.
737-43 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The author discusses new forms of
nonmarital living arrangements in France and the methodological
problems they pose for researchers.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40449 Gu,
Jiantang. The marital status of aged population in
Beijing. Population Research, Vol. 8, No. 2, Jun 1991. 27-34 pp.
Beijing, China. In Eng.
"This article is intended to make a
preliminary analysis of the marital status of the aged population
according [to] data obtained from the 2.15 Per-Thousand Sampling Survey
of the Aged Population in Beijing in 1987." Comparisons are made with
trends among younger age groups.
Correspondence: J. Gu,
Beijing College of Economics, Institute of Population, Beijing, China.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40450 Haskey,
John. Patterns of marriage, divorce, and cohabitation in
the different countries of Europe. Population Trends, No. 69,
Autumn 1992. 27-36 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"This article
considers the available data on first marriages, divorces, remarriages,
and cohabitation in the different countries of Europe. It traces the
trends since 1950 in first marriages and divorces--the most important
ways in which partnerships are formed and terminated--and concludes
that distinctive patterns of marriage and divorce have emerged in the
different regions of Europe. Derived from the limited information
which is available, a similar conclusion is drawn concerning
cohabitation, prevalence being highest in the Nordic countries of
Northern Europe, and lowest--virtually non-existent--in Southern
Europe. Possible links between the patterns of marriage, divorce, and
cohabitation are investigated and
discussed."
Correspondence: J. Haskey, Office of Population
Censuses and Surveys, Population Statistics Division, St. Catherines
House, 10 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JP, England. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40451 Haskey,
John. Pre-marital cohabitation and the probability of
subsequent divorce: analyses using new data from the General Household
Survey. Population Trends, No. 68, Summer 1992. 10-9 pp. London,
England. In Eng.
"This article traces the trends in pre-marital
cohabitation [in Great Britain] by birth cohort and age at marriage,
and examines these trends for first and second marriages separately.
[It] also investigates the relationship between pre-marital
cohabitation and the probability of divorce. Results indicate that the
prevalence of cohabitation before second marriages is higher than that
before first marriages, and that couples who cohabit before marriage
have higher rates of divorce and marital breakdown than those who do
not."
Correspondence: J. Haskey, Office of Population
Censuses and Surveys, Population Statistics Division, St. Catherines
House, 10 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JP, England. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40452 Hirosima,
Kiyosi; Yamamoto, Chizuko. Divorce rate in Japan: 1989,
1990. Jinko Mondai Kenkyu/Journal of Population Problems, Vol. 48,
No. 1, Apr 1992. 66-75 pp. Tokyo, Japan. In Jpn.
The authors
examine levels and trends in divorce in Japan for the years 1989 and
1990. In addition to data on age-specific divorce rates by sex, data
are provided on marriage and divorce by nationality of husband and
wife, total divorce rate, and mean age at
divorce.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40453 Hobart,
Charles; Grigel, Frank. Cohabitation among Canadian
students at the end of the eighties. Journal of Comparative Family
Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, Autumn 1992. 311-37 pp. Calgary, Canada. In
Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"This paper begins by comparing the
responses of never-married Anglophone and Francophone students [in
Canada], surveyed in 1968, 1977 and 1988 to questions dealing with
attitudes toward and experience of cohabitation. The 1988 data show
that Francophone women are most favorable, and Anglophone women are
least favorable toward cohabitation....Analyses show that quite
different combinations of independent variables are predictive of the
attitude and experience criteria for the four language-sex subsamples,
with that for Francophone males the most
distinctive."
Correspondence: C. Hobart, University of
Alberta, Department of Sociology, Edmonton, Alberta T5G 1S1, Canada.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
58:40454 Hoem,
Britta; Hoem, Jan M. The disruption of marital and
non-marital unions in contemporary Sweden. In: Demographic
applications of event history analysis, edited by James Trussell,
Richard Hankinson, and Judith Tilton. 1992. 61-93 pp. Clarendon Press:
Oxford, England. In Eng.
"In this chapter, we study the extent and
structure of the general decline in the stability of marital and
non-marital unions in Sweden over the quarter-century between the 1950s
and the late 1970s....We focus on the event that a conjugal union
breaks up and the partners stop living together and use hazard
regression techniques to analyse dissolutions among a reasonably large
number of Swedish women from all walks of life, taken from the 1981
Swedish Fertility Survey."
For a related study by James Trussell et
al., see elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence: B. Hoem,
Statistics Sweden, S-115 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40455 Holden,
Karen C.; Smock, Pamela J. The economic costs of marital
dissolution: why do women bear a disproportionate cost? Annual
Review of Sociology, Vol. 17, 1991. 51-78 pp. Palo Alto, California. In
Eng.
"We review the literature on the economic consequences of
marital dissolution for women. Longitudinal studies of the effects of
divorce and widowhood indicate that both types of dissolutions have
negative and prolonged consequences for women's economic well-being.
This is not the case for men, where marital dissolution often leads to
an improved economic standard of living. Following an examination of
empirical studies and measurement issues in the divorce and widowhood
literatures, we describe preexisting and direct sources of women's
postdissolution economic insecurity." The primary geographical focus
is on the United States.
Correspondence: K. C. Holden,
University of Wisconsin, Department of Consumer Science, 1225
Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Location: Princeton
University Library (SSRC).
58:40456 Huang,
Rongqing; Kai, Xin. A study of China's models for first
marriage and primiparity. Chinese Journal of Population Science,
Vol. 2, No. 4, 1990. 361-73 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"This
article begins with an introduction of Coale's first marriage model,
proceeds to propose another, improved model, and uses actual data to
make a comparison of these two models. In the second section, this
article distinguishes between time of first marriage and time that
regular sexual activity commences, as well as analyzing the time
distribution of the commencement of regular sexual activity for women
in China. Lastly, a set of measurement methods from first marriage to
primiparity have been provided."
Correspondence: R. Huang,
Beijing School of Economics, Institute of Population Economics,
Beijing, China. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40457 Ignatczyk,
Walentyna. Future Polish family in the light of family
attitudes of single young people. Studia Demograficzne, No. 3/105,
1991. 43-61 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
"The article is a
presentation of selected results of research conducted among Polish
single young people (aged 18-34). The research concerned: (a) the
pattern of marital attitudes and values of marital life; (b) the
pattern of reproduction attitudes and parental values. The results of
the research confirmed the claim that Polish young people are anxious
to get married...[and] that Polish young people demonstrate a strong
need for having a child in their marriage despite [the] difficult
social and economic situation of the country and difficult living
conditions of Polish families...."
Correspondence: W.
Ignatczyk, Akademia Ekonomiczna w Poznaniu, al. Niepodleglosci 10,
60-967 Poznan, Poland. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40458 Jones,
Gavin W. Divorce in Islamic Southeast Asia. Working
Papers in Demography, No. 36, 1992. 59 pp. Australian National
University, Research School of Social Sciences: Canberra, Australia. In
Eng.
"This paper examines the levels and trends in divorce rates
[in Islamic Southeast Asia] and their regional variation over...time.
It examines reasons why divorce rates were so high up to the 1950s, and
why they have declined so rapidly since then. The explanation is
multifaceted and includes rapid socio-economic change, including
rapidly rising levels of education for females and increased
participation of women in the market
economy."
Correspondence: Australian National University,
Research School of Social Sciences, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601,
Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40459 Kiefl,
Walter; Kummer, Ingeborg. Couples in crisis: results of
an evaluation study with special reference to the effects of the birth
of children. [Paare in der Krise: Ergebnisse einer
Evaluationsstudie unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Auswirkungen
der Geburt von Kindern.] Materialien zur Bevolkerungswissenschaft, No.
74, 1992. 141 pp. Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung: Wiesbaden,
Germany. In Ger.
Findings are presented from a study of the process
of marital separation. The data are from interviews with 123 persons
seeking family counseling in 1987-1988 in Munich, West Germany.
Special attention is given to the impact of the birth of the first
child on marital relationships.
Correspondence:
Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 6,
Postfach 5528, D-6200 Wiesbaden, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40460 Levy,
Michel L. The bicentenary of civil marriage. [Le
bicentenaire du mariage civil.] Population et Societes, No. 271, Sep
1992. [1-3] pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The author reviews the
institution of marriage in France since the setting up of civil
marriage in 1792.
Correspondence: M. L. Levy, Institut
National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris
Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40461 Liao,
Cailian; Heaton, Tim B. Divorce trends and differentials
in China. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3,
Autumn 1992. 413-29 pp. Calgary, Canada. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"This study examines divorce differentials using the China In-Depth
Fertility Survey conducted in 1985. Divorce is more common among urban
residents, those with more education, those who are still young, and
those whose marriages are arranged....Divorce remains an unusual
occurrence in China, but important sociodemographic differentials are
evident."
Correspondence: C. Liao, P.O. Box 12654, San
Diego, CA 92112. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
58:40462 Lindgren,
Jarl; Ritamies, Marketta; Miettinen, Anneli. Consensual
unions and their dissolution among Finnish women born in
1938-1969. Yearbook of Population Research in Finland, Vol. 30,
1992. 33-43 pp. Helsinki, Finland. In Eng.
"The article presents
some empirical data on the development of consensual unions in Finland,
with emphasis on [the] pattern of entering these unions as well as
their dissolution. The main source has been a survey conducted in
1989....In the survey about 4,000 women aged 22-51 years were
interviewed. The article starts with an overview on the development
and the present situation of consensual union as a form of cohabiting.
Then it deals with the age at entering first consensual union and with
the frequency of consensual unions ending in marriage....Data on the
children born in consensual unions [are
included]."
Correspondence: J. Lindgren, Population
Research Institute, Kalevankatu 16, SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40463 Manting,
Dorien. The break-up of unions; the role of
cohabitation. PDOD Paper, No. 11, Aug 1992. 19, [6] pp.
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Postdoctorale Onderzoekersopleiding
Demografie [PDOD]: Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Eng.
"This study
reports on the role of cohabitation in the break-up of marital and
non-marital unions of Dutch women, born between 1950 and 1969....It has
been argued in this paper that the diverse ways of defining the
relationship between cohabitation and marriage have consequences for
the research on the separation of couples; they have impact on the
formulation of the process of separation itself, as well as on the
hypotheses formulated. By documenting the rates of disruption of
unions, several hypotheses are tested. The data for the analyses have
been derived from The Netherlands Fertility Survey
(1988)...."
Correspondence: Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Planologisch en Demografisch Instituut, Postdoctorale
Onderzoekersopleiding Demografie, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40464 Meekers,
Dominique. The process of marriage in African societies:
a multiple indicator approach. Population and Development Review,
Vol. 18, No. 1, Mar 1992. 61-78, 205, 207 pp. New York, New York. In
Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"This article demonstrates the use of
multiple indicators of union formation to study marriage customs in
African societies. While previous studies of African marriage
generally provide information only on type of union as self-reported,
this study uses information from the 1980-81 Cote d'Ivoire Fertility
Survey to develop a more detailed typology of marital unions based on
the sequence of events in the union formation process. This new
classification incorporates information on the processual nature of
Ivorian unions and more adequately reflects the diversity of marital
systems practiced in Cote d'Ivoire."
Correspondence: D.
Meekers, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Sociology,
Population Research Institute, University Park, PA 16802.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40465 Okonjo,
Kamene. Aspects of continuity and change in mate-selection
among the Ibgo west of the River Niger. Journal of Comparative
Family Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, Autumn 1992. 339-60 pp. Calgary,
Canada. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"Using participant
observation and the results of an interview of 250 women repeated in
two other [Nigerian] surveys, the attitudes of Western Igbo women to
the variables parental and self-selection of mates, arranged marriages,
the payment of bridewealth, polygyny, woman to woman marriage, levirate
marriage, father to daughter marriage (Idegbe), pre-marital chastity
and the influence of religion, education and age on these variables are
explored. It is found that certain aspects of the Western Igbo
marriage system and practice have been modified by Western practice,
while others are now disapproved of and can be assumed to be in
decline. The central core of the marriage system and practice has
however proved stable and remained virtually unchanged and great stock
is still laid on affinal relationship."
Correspondence: K.
Okonjo, University of Nigeria, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Nsukka, Nigeria. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
58:40466 Rao, K. V.;
DeMaris, Alfred. Proportional hazards vs logistic
regression approaches to assessing the risk of marriage
dissolution. In: American Statistical Association, 1989
proceedings of the Social Statistics Section. [1989]. 438-43 pp.
American Statistical Association: Alexandria, Virginia. In Eng.
"In
this paper, our objective is to analyze marital dissolution in the
United States and identify some important socio-economic and
demographic covariates of marital breakdown....[We] explore the
similarities and dissimilarities in the outcomes obtained from (i)
proportional hazards model and (ii) logistic regression....The data for
this study come from the [1987-1988] National Survey of Families and
Households...."
Correspondence: K. V. Rao, Bowling Green
State University, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green, OH
43403-0231. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40467 Sander,
William. Unobserved variables and marital status: the
schooling connection. Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 5, No.
3, Aug 1992. 217-28 pp. New York, New York/Berlin, Germany. In Eng.
"This study focuses on the effect of schooling on marital status. A
Hausman-type test shows that schooling cannot be legitimately treated
as an exogenous determinant of marriage and divorce. It is shown that
if schooling is treated as an exogenous variable, the negative effect
of schooling on the odds of marriage is underestimated. Further, the
results indicate that schooling has a significant negative effect on
divorce if it is treated as an exogenous variable; the coefficient for
schooling is positive if it is treated as an endogenous variable." The
data, which concern the United States, are from the General Social
Survey and cover the period 1986-1990.
Correspondence: W.
Sander, DePaul University, Department of Economics, 25 East Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40468 Schoen,
Robert; Owens, Dawn. A further look at first unions and
first marriages. Johns Hopkins Population Center Papers on
Population, No. WP 90-02, [1990]. 12, [8] pp. Johns Hopkins University,
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Population Center: Baltimore,
Maryland. In Eng.
"The retreat from marriage and the rapid rise in
cohabitation are examined using data from the National Survey of
Families and Households. A multistate approach is used to follow the
experience of U.S. females born between 1928 and 1967. In recent
cohorts, both the average duration of a first cohabitation and the
likelihood that a first cohabitation leads to marriage declined.
Moreover, the probability of ever marrying is greater for women who
never cohabited than for women who did. These findings suggest that
cohabitation is not simply a prelude to marriage, but rather another
kind of relationship."
Correspondence: Johns Hopkins
University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Population Center, 615
North Wolfe Street, Room 2300, Baltimore, MD 21205-2179.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40469 Schoen,
Robert. Intermarriage as a dimension of marriage
choice. Johns Hopkins Population Center Papers on Population, No.
WP 91-07, [1991]. 14, [2] pp. Johns Hopkins University, School of
Hygiene and Public Health, Population Center: Baltimore, Maryland. In
Eng.
Using data for the United States, the author focuses on
"analyses of marriage behavior based on marriage propensities in order
to examine marriage choice independent of compositional effects....[He
notes that the] propensity to marry has fallen substantially for
persons in virtually all age, sex, race, and education
categories...[and that] 25% or more of women now in their 20's may
never have children."
Correspondence: Johns Hopkins
University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Population Center, 615
North Wolfe Street, Room 2300, Baltimore, MD 21205-2179.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40470
Sinel'nikov, A. B. Socially approved reasons for
divorce in the past and present. [Sotsial'no odobryaemye prichiny
razvoda v proshlom i nastoyashchem.] Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya,
No. 2, 1992. 27-38 pp. Moscow, Russia. In Rus.
Laws concerning
divorce in different cultures around the world are first reviewed. The
author then summarizes results of a newspaper survey conducted in the
USSR in 1988, and concludes that divorce is currently a phenomenon
affected by individual preferences rather than by the needs of society
as a whole.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
58:40471 Stone,
Lawrence. Uncertain unions: marriage in England
1660-1753. ISBN 0-19-820253-9. LC 91-33370. 1992. xiii, 281 pp.
Oxford University Press: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"This book consists of a series of case-studies about the
ambiguities and uncertainties surrounding the making of marriage in
early modern England. The stories range in date from the Restoration
of the authority of the church and its courts in 1660 to the passage of
the Marriage Act of 1753. They illustrate the extraordinary variety of
legal but hard to prove, quasi-legal, and illegal ways of making a
marriage, ranging from customary concubinage to verbal marriage
contracts to clandestine marriages to bigamous or incestuous marriages.
As a result of glaring defects in the laws of marriage, very large
numbers of perfectly respectable people in the seventeenth and early
eighteenth centuries could never be quite sure whether they were
married or not."
Correspondence: Oxford University Press,
Walton Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40472 Sugareva,
Marta. Cohabitation--a rejection of the family or a new
family model. [Sazhitelstvata--nova forma na semeistvoto ili kriza
na semeistvoto.] Naselenie, No. 3, 1992. 78-90 pp. Sofia, Bulgaria. In
Bul. with sum. in Eng.
The author examines and compares recent
trends in unmarried cohabitation in Western Europe and the United
States with those in Eastern Europe.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40473 Trussell,
James; Rodriguez, German; Vaughan, Barbara. Union
dissolution in Sweden. In: Demographic applications of event
history analysis, edited by James Trussell, Richard Hankinson, and
Judith Tilton. 1992. 38-60 pp. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. In
Eng.
"The goal of the present inquiry is to examine the covariates
of union dissolution in Sweden, the only population with data suited
for such an analysis. The remaining part of the chapter is divided
into four sections. The first describes the data available for analysis
and presents preliminary analyses of these data. The second discusses
the hazard model, the statistical model (equivalent to a multivariate
life table) that we use in the subsequent analyses, and the process of
selecting variables for inclusion in this model. The third presents
the final results and a discussion thereof. The chapter concludes with
a summary."
For a related study by Britta Hoem and Jan M. Hoem, see
elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence: J. Trussell,
Princeton University, Office of Population Research, 21 Prospect
Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08544-2091. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40474 Tzeng,
Meei-Shenn. The effects of socioeconomic heterogamy and
changes on marital dissolution for first marriages. Journal of
Marriage and the Family, Vol. 54, No. 3, Aug 1992. 609-19 pp.
Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Eng.
"National Longitudinal Surveys are
used to investigate the patterns and determinants of marital
dissolution for first marriages [in the United States]. The focus of
this paper is to examine the associations between socioeconomic status
differences and changes within marriage of marital partners and marital
instability. Based on a discrete hazard model, the results indicate
the risk of marital instability is highest among couples who have
heterogamous education and who do not follow the most traditional
working arrangement where only the husband is employed full-time in the
labor market. Those couples who do equalize their original education
and conventionalize employment status enjoy higher marital stability.
However, marriages in which couples change to educational heterogamy
and unconventional employment statuses are less likely to
survive."
Correspondence: M.-S. Tzeng, University of
Wisconsin, Department of Sociology, Center for Demography and Ecology,
Madison, WI 53706. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40475 Wadhera,
Surinder; Strachan, Jill. Historical publication
highlights: selected marriage statistics, Canada, 1921-1990.
[Faits saillants de la publication chronologique: certains
renseignements sur les mariages contractes de 1921 a 1990.] Health
Reports/Rapports sur la Sante, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1992. 78-83 pp. Ottawa,
Canada. In Eng; Fre.
The authors provide selected data from the
first in a series of publications describing the history of fertility
and marriage data for Canada. In this article, data concerning total
and age-specific marriage rates and number of marriages for the period
1921-1990 are presented and briefly
described.
Correspondence: S. Wadhera, Statistics Canada,
Canadian Centre for Health Information, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OT6,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40476 Wang,
Zhigang. A preliminary study of the rate of women married
in China. Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 3, No. 4,
1991. 341-8 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The author uses recent
census data for China to examine changes in the rate of never-married
women. Consideration is given to regional differences, educational and
occupational status, and ethnic group. Some comparisons are made with
selected other countries.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40477 Zhu,
Nong. A review of the historical relationship between
migration and marriage. Chinese Journal of Population Science,
Vol. 3, No. 4, 1991. 327-39 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"Daniel
Courgeau of the National Institute of Population of France...has
proposed a set of theories on the data analysis of life history in his
recently published book Analyse Demographique des Biographies. His
basic approach is to use mathematical models in the study of the
probability of the occurrence of various events under different
circumstances in the life history and demonstrate the interplay between
various events, such as marriage and migration, childbirth and
migration and the effect of socioeconomic factors on these events. It
is the purpose of this paper to apply Courgeau's non-parameter model
and semi-parameter model to the study of our survey data and to briefly
explain how we can use this data processing method to analyze the
mutual effects of marriage and migration and the effect of other
socioeconomic features." Data are from a 1988 survey conducted in
Hubei Province, China.
For the book by Courgeau, published in 1989,
see 55:30727.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40478
Altmeyer-Baumann, Sabine; Herzer, Manfred. Change
in family transitions: models and services for dealing with family
crises. [Familiale Ubergange im Wandel: Modelle und Hilfsangebote
zur Bewaltigung familialer Krisen.] Materialien zur
Bevolkerungswissenschaft: Sonderheft, No. 19, 1992. 240 pp.
Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung: Wiesbaden, Germany. In Ger.
This publication deals with transitions from one stage of the
family life cycle to another. Theories and sociological models of
family life cycle transitions are first reviewed. Organized services
for assisting with family crises in Germany are then examined, with
special reference to divorce and widowhood.
Correspondence:
Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 6,
Postfach 5528, D-6200 Wiesbaden, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40479 Armstrong,
Alice. Maintenance payments for child support in southern
Africa: using law to promote family planning. Studies in Family
Planning, Vol. 23, No. 4, Jul-Aug 1992. 217-28 pp. New York, New York.
In Eng.
"This article presents some of the legal, social, cultural,
and practical constraints facing women who attempt to enforce their
right to maintenance (child support) payments in southern Africa....The
social and cultural constraints that influence the enforcement of
maintenance laws include women's lack of knowledge of the law,
attitudes toward child support influenced by customary law, allegations
of women's abuse of maintenance payments, financial and practical
problems, and fear of physical violence or other forms of retribution.
Maintenance laws are relevant to family planning in that if such laws
were more effectively enforced, so that the financial burden of
children were more equally shared between women and men, men would have
a financial stake in controlling their fertility." The geographical
focus is on Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and
Zimbabwe.
Correspondence: A. Armstrong, Women and Law in
Southern Africa Trust, P.O. Box UA 171, Union Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40480 Browning,
Martin. Children and household economic behavior.
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 30, No. 3, Sep 1992. 1,434-75 pp.
Nashville, Tennessee. In Eng.
"This paper looks at some of the
methodological issues that arise in modeling the effects of children on
household behavior and presents some estimates for selected areas. For
our purposes household behavior will be taken to refer to household
decisions on labor supply, the allocation of expenditure to different
periods..., and the decision as to what to do with the difference
between income and expenditure....I shall be concerned mainly with the
effects of dependent children...[and] I restrict attention largely to
Western societies."
Correspondence: M. Browning, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (PF).
58:40481 Canova,
Eliska. A historical study of the family. [Studium
historicke rodiny.] Demografie, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1992. 131-6 pp. Prague,
Czechoslovakia. In Cze. with sum. in Eng; Rus.
The author analyzes
the history of changes in family characteristics using data from parish
registers from the seventeenth century.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40482 de Jong
Gierveld, Jenny; Liefbroer, Aart C.; Beekink, Erik. The
effect of parental resources on patterns of leaving home among young
adults in the Netherlands. Studia Demograficzne, No. 3/105, 1991.
19-42 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
"In this paper the process of
leaving the parental home among young adults is studied. After a brief
historical overview, three main reasons for leaving home are
distinguished, viz. leaving home to complete an education, leaving home
to start living with a partner, and leaving home to gain more autonomy
and independence. Both the timing and the main reason for leaving the
parental home is expected to depend on the resources of the young
adults' parents. Four classes of parental resources are distinguished,
viz. material and non-material resources that can be transferred to
young adults, and material and non-material resources that cannot be
transferred to young adults. It is hypothesized that high levels of
transferable parental resources facilitate the process of leaving home,
whereas high levels of non-transferable resources slow down this
process. The hypotheses are tested using data from a survey among 583
young adults born in 1961 in the
Netherlands."
Correspondence: J. de Jong Gierveld, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
Netherlands. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40483 Echarri
Canovas, Carlos J. Family, household, and health service
use: the case of Mexico. [Familia, hogar y utilizacion de
servicios de salud: el caso de Mexico.] In: Demographic and Health
Surveys World Conference, August 5-7, 1991, Washington, D.C.:
proceedings. Volume 3. 1991. 1,759-81 pp. Institute for Resource
Development/Macro International, Demographic and Health Surveys [DHS]:
Columbia, Maryland. In Spa.
Health service use in Mexico is
examined by household type. Consideration is given to age and sex
composition of households, nuclear and extended families, and
accessibility of health care. Characteristics of household heads are
also described.
Correspondence: C. J. Echarri Canovas,
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Place de l'Universite 1, 1348
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40484 Eggebeen,
David J. Changes in sibling configurations for American
preschool children. Social Biology, Vol. 39, No. 1-2,
Spring-Summer 1992. 27-44 pp. Port Angeles, Washington. In Eng.
"This paper uses data drawn from the 1940 through 1980 Public Use
Microdata Samples of the U.S. Census of Population to document sibling
configurations from the child's perspective. Changes in four aspects
of siblings are examined for five cohorts of white and black
preschool-aged children: number, birth order distributions, spacing
intervals, and sex composition. Changes in fertility behavior of
adults in the post-war era had a profound effect on the structure of
sibling systems experienced by children....These shifts in size of
sibling sets are reflected in changes in the proportion of each
[cohort] who are first born and only children, both of which have
increased substantially by the 1980 cohort....Substantial shifts across
cohorts in several measures of sex composition of children are
observed. Most significantly, there is a marked decline in the
proportion of children experiencing an opposite-sex older
sibling."
Correspondence: D. J. Eggebeen, Pennsylvania
State University, Department of Human Development and Family Studies,
University Park, PA 16802. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40485 Ekouevi,
Koffi; Ayad, Mohamed; Barrere, Bernard; Cantor, David C.
Household structure from a comparative perspective. In:
Demographic and Health Surveys World Conference, August 5-7, 1991,
Washington, D.C.: proceedings. Volume 3. 1991. 1,547-77 pp. Institute
for Resource Development/Macro International, Demographic and Health
Surveys [DHS]: Columbia, Maryland. In Eng.
"This research focuses
on household demographic characteristics such as age and sex structure,
headship of households and size composition of households. Patterns of
age-sex specific headship rates are also examined." Data are from the
Demographic and Health Surveys and the World Fertility Survey and
concern developing countries.
Correspondence: K. Ekouevi,
Institute for Resource Development/Macro International, Demographic and
Health Surveys, 8850 Stanford Boulevard, Suite 4000, Columbia, MD
21045. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40486
El-Khorazaty, M. Nabil; Horne, Amelia D. A new
approach to measuring selected events of the family life cycle.
In: American Statistical Association, 1989 proceedings of the Social
Statistics Section. [1989]. 426-31 pp. American Statistical
Association: Alexandria, Virginia. In Eng.
"This paper is concerned
with the estimation of some of the indices of the first stage of the
family life cycle which follows the marriage event, namely, family
formation patterns....The present paper...presents a new methodology
which requires only data on fertility rates specific for the ages of
the mother and the father, which are usually available on an annual
basis from vital registration data....Family life cycle indices were
calculated for 26 developing and 17 developed countries...for the
period of the two decades from the mid sixties to the mid eighties
whenever data permitted."
Correspondence: M. N.
El-Khorazaty, Central Statistics Organization, P.O. Box 5835, Manama,
Bahrain. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40487 Finland.
Tilastokeskus (Helsinki, Finland). Families, 1990.
[Perheet 1990/Familjer 1990.] Vaesto/Befolkning/Population 1992, No. 7,
1992. 76 pp. Helsinki, Finland. In Fin; Swe. with sum. in Eng.
This
publication presents data on families in Finland in 1990. For the first
time, consensual unions without children are treated as families. The
focus is on family type and number of
children.
Correspondence: Tilastokeskus, PL 504, 00101
Helsinki, Finland. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40488 Guinnane,
Timothy W. Age at leaving home in rural Ireland,
1901-1911. Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 3, Sep 1992.
651-74 pp. New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"Economic
historians have stressed the importance of households and household
formation but have devoted little attention to the process of leaving
home. Leaving home in Ireland is important because of households' role
in post-Famine demographic patterns. A matched Irish manuscript census
sample for 1901 and 1911 shows that Irish males left home later than
females. Statistical tests show that much of this reflects an Irish
inheritance system that led many males never to leave home. Other
economic forces, such as labor market opportunities, often had opposite
impacts on males and females."
Correspondence: T. W.
Guinnane, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Princeton, NJ
08544-1021. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
58:40489 Guinnane,
Timothy W. Intergenerational transfers, emigration, and
the rural Irish household system. Explorations in Economic
History, Vol. 29, No. 4, Oct 1992. 456-76 pp. Orlando, Florida. In Eng.
The author examines the unique characteristics of Ireland's rural
household structure and its impact on demographic behavior in the
period after the famine of the mid-nineteenth century. Data from the
Irish censuses of 1901 and 1911 are used to examine the relationship
between inheritance practices and household economic circumstances at
the turn of the century. "These results demonstrate the reflection of
household strategies in household morphology and illustrate the
relationship between economic circumstances, life-cycle strategies, and
household dynamics."
Correspondence: T. W. Guinnane,
Princeton University, Department of Economics, Princeton, NJ
08544-1021. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
58:40490 Hammel, E.
A.; Mason, C.; Wachter, K.; Wang, F.; Yang, H. Rapid
population change and kinship: the effects of unstable demographic
changes on Chinese kinship networks, 1750-2250. In: Consequences
of rapid population growth in developing countries. 1991. 243-71 pp.
Taylor and Francis: New York, New York/London, England. In Eng.
The
effect of rapid change in the rate of population growth on kinship
networks is examined using the example of China. The authors show how
expectations of having kin are determined by shifting patterns of
nuptiality, fertility, and mortality. Particular attention is given to
future prospects of individuals having surviving relatives to support
them in their old age.
Correspondence: E. A. Hammel,
University of California, Graduate Group in Demography, 2232 Piedmont
Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40491 Hernandez,
Donald J. Specifying family relationships in the decennial
census and Census Bureau surveys. In: American Statistical
Association, 1989 proceedings of the Social Statistics Section. [1989].
21-5 pp. American Statistical Association: Alexandria, Virginia. In
Eng.
"With the enormous changes in American family life that have
occurred during the twentieth century, the Census Bureau has initiated
important innovations in data collection on family relationships in the
decennial census, the CPS, and the SIPP. These innovations include
developing questionnaire techniques for identifying family
relationships within households, for identifying the marital status of
persons, and for obtaining detailed information about the marital
histories of persons." The author describes and critically examines
these innovations.
Correspondence: D. J. Hernandez, U.S.
Bureau of the Census, Population Division, FB-3, Room 2381, Washington,
D.C. 20233. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40492 Hohn,
Charlotte. Some methodological and substantive options
with demographic life course data--examples from the retrospective
survey of the Federal Institute for Population Research (FRG).
Studia Demograficzne, No. 3/105, 1991. 91-7 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
"In the paper results of [a] retrospective survey on [the] life
course of women which was conducted in [West Germany] in 1987 are
presented. Approximately 600 women aged 35 to 60 years from 5 birth
cohorts were interviewed. The interview was focused on partnership,
birth and work histories of women." Trends in marital status, family
formation, and economic activity are examined, and the methodology used
is described.
Correspondence: C. Hohn, Bundesinstitut fur
Bevolkerungsforschung, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 6, Postfach 5528, D-6200
Wiesbaden, Germany. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40493 Japan.
Institute of Population Problems (Tokyo, Japan). A study
of family function and its change: a review of the existing literature
in Japan on the structure and function of the family. Institute of
Population Problems Survey Series, No. 5, Mar 31, 1992. 106 pp. Tokyo,
Japan. In Jpn.
The existing literature in Japan on the structure
and function of the family is reviewed.
Correspondence:
Ministry of Health and Welfare, Institute of Population Problems, 1-2-2
Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-45, Japan. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40494 Keilman,
Nico; Kuijsten, Anton; Vossen, Ad. Modelling household
formation and dissolution. ISBN 0-19-829500-6. 1988. xxii, 298 pp.
Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. In Eng.
This selection of papers
was presented at an international workshop on changing households, held
in the Netherlands on December 12-14, 1984. Three additional papers,
prepared specifically for this volume, are included. The studies
examine various aspects of household modeling, including social and
economic theories, data problems, model-building issues, and the
application of household models. The focus is on the dynamics of
household formation and dissolution, with a primary geographical focus
on Europe.
Correspondence: Oxford University Press, Walton
Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (FST).
58:40495 Knodel,
John; Chayovan, Napaporn; Siriboon, Siriwan. The impact of
fertility decline on familial support for the elderly: an illustration
from Thailand. Population and Development Review, Vol. 18, No. 1,
Mar 1992. 79-103, 205, 207 pp. New York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in
Fre; Spa.
"The recent and substantial reduction in the number of
children among couples in Thailand is commonly perceived to be one of
the most important social changes likely to reduce the extent to which
future generations of Thai elderly will be supported by their families.
This analysis suggests that the impact of fertility decline per se
will be relatively moderate with respect to coresidence, the most
crucial aspect of familial support....Notwithstanding the very
substantial fertility decline, few elderly are likely to be childless
or to have only one child, and elderly parents with at least two
children are still quite likely to live with one of them. An important
implication of the study is that, in settings similar to Thailand, the
negative effect of lower fertility on familial support for the elderly
need not be an overriding concern when deciding whether or not to
implement policies to reduce fertility."
Correspondence: J.
Knodel, University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1070. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40496 Kuijsten,
Anton. The study of family and household: from
description to explanation. Studia Demograficzne, No. 3/105, 1991.
5-17 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
"In the paper recent changes in
family and household structures, which have been observed in Western
countries, are presented as well as factors affecting these changes.
New patterns in family and household formation and dissolution require
new directions in research in this field. These directions are
discussed and emphasis is given to [the] necessity of a multi-level
research strategy. Also, a focus on decision-making at the micro level
is required. Current and planned research projects on family and
household in the Netherlands are
described."
Correspondence: A. Kuijsten, Universiteit van
Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40497 Kytir,
Josef. Between "pre-modern" and "post-modern"--formation
of families in Austria, 1984 to 1990. [Zwischen "vormodern" und
"postmodern"--Familiengrundungen in Osterreich 1984 bis 1990.]
Zeitschrift fur Bevolkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1992. 117-33
pp. Wiesbaden, Germany. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
"This
analysis provides an overview [of] forms of family formation behavior
in Austria in the years 1984 to 1990. Using vital statistics data all
women with a first birth in the years 1984 to 1990 were classified into
three distinct groups according to their form of family formation
behavior....The analysis indicates the highest proportions of unmarried
mothers among young and poorly educated women. Moreover, the highest
illegitimacy ratios are not found in urban areas. This type of family
formation is particularly common in those alpine areas of Austria where
having an illegitimate birth can be linked to a long standing practice.
The high percentage of women who remain unmarried although they have a
child, is therefore not a phenomenon of postmodernism, but a result of
local tradition."
Correspondence: J. Kytir, Osterreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut fur Demographie, Hintere
Zollamtsstrasse 2b, A-1033 Vienna, Austria. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40498 Lloyd,
Cynthia B.; Desai, Sonalde. Children's living arrangements
in comparative perspective. In: Demographic and Health Surveys
World Conference, August 5-7, 1991, Washington, D.C.: proceedings.
Volume 3. 1991. 1,623-43 pp. Institute for Resource Development/Macro
International, Demographic and Health Surveys [DHS]: Columbia,
Maryland. In Eng.
"In this paper, we will examine various aspects
of children's living arrangements that have been hypothesized to affect
child welfare using the data from 18 Demographic and Health Surveys.
We begin the paper with a discussion of the ways in which living
arrangements might affect child welfare in various developing country
settings....We give particular emphasis to mother/child co-residence
because of mothers' central importance in care and nurturing of young
children and their strategic potential as agents of change in enhancing
their children's development."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40499 Malacic,
Janez. Probability of family growth in fertility
analysis. [Verovatnoca povecanja porodice u analizi fertiliteta.]
Stanovnistvo, Vol. 28-29, No. 3-4/1-2, Jul-Dec/Jan-Jun 1990-1991.
125-35 pp. Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In Scr. with sum. in Eng.
Family
size data for Slovenia, Croatia, Vojvodina, and Serbia, Yugoslavia, and
for Italy are analyzed and compared to determine the probability of
family growth. "The regions chosen serve to illustrate the modern
reproduction environment....All examples...show concentration of
children in one child and two-child families as well as a strong
decline in the number and share of families with three and more
children."
Correspondence: J. Malacic, Univerziteta u
Ljubljani, Ekonomski Fakultet, Trg Osvoboditve 11, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40500 Marsh,
Catherine; Arber, Sara. Families and households:
divisions and change. ISBN 0-312-06872-7. LC 91-22449. 1992. xi,
217 pp. St. Martin's Press: New York, New York. In Eng.
This is a
selection of 10 papers by various authors on aspects of recent research
into the changing structure of the family and of living arrangements.
Most of the papers were originally presented at the 1990 British
Sociological Association Annual Conference; the primary geographical
focus is on the United Kingdom, although one paper is concerned with
West Germany.
Correspondence: St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Location: Rutgers University
Library, New Brunswick, NJ.
58:40501 Mason,
Karen O.; Kuhlthau, Karen. The perceived impact of child
care costs on women's labor supply and fertility. Demography, Vol.
29, No. 4, Nov 1992. 523-43 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"In this
paper we [examine] social and economic variation in reported child care
constraints on both employment and fertility behavior. Using a
probability sample of mothers of preschool-aged children living in the
Detroit metropolitan area in spring 1986, we investigate the correlates
of women's statements that their current or past employment and
childbearing have been affected by problems with child care. We also
analyze which women are most likely to perceive nearby child care
facilities as inadequate." The authors suggest that "policies to
increase the supply of child care or to lower its cost could increase
female labor supply by a substantial fraction, with an even greater
rise among women most at risk of poverty and reliance on public
assistance, but probably would not raise fertility
significantly."
This is a revised version of a paper originally
presented at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America.
Correspondence: K. O. Mason, East-West Center,
Program on Population, 1777 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40502 Ndiaye,
Salif; Thiongane, Awa; Sarr, Ibrahima; Charbit, Yves.
Family structure in Senegal. [Structures familiales au
Senegal.] In: Demographic and Health Surveys World Conference, August
5-7, 1991, Washington, D.C.: proceedings. Volume 3. 1991. 1,579-602
pp. Institute for Resource Development/Macro International, Demographic
and Health Surveys [DHS]: Columbia, Maryland. In Fre.
Family
characteristics and formation in Senegal are reviewed. Consideration is
given to endogamy and polygamy, marriage age, cohabitation of spouses
and children, and the effect of Western family models on Senegalese
family structure.
Correspondence: S. Ndiaye, Direction de
la Prevision et de la Statistique, Dakar, Senegal. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40503 Ono-Osaki,
Keiko. Female headed households in developing countries:
by choice or by circumstances? In: Demographic and Health Surveys
World Conference, August 5-7, 1991, Washington, D.C.: proceedings.
Volume 3. 1991. 1,603-21 pp. Institute for Resource Development/Macro
International, Demographic and Health Surveys [DHS]: Columbia,
Maryland. In Eng.
"The primary objective of this paper is to
provide a more refined picture of female headed households in
developing countries....The paper begins with a review of the previous
findings on female headship, followed by a description of the data and
methodology. The empirical results consist of a global overview of the
prevalence of female headed households, and a descriptive comparison of
the socio-demographic profile of female and male heads. Then, the
determinants of headship will be explored by applying multivariate
techniques in order to gain a better understanding of the factors
affecting headship. Lastly, the characteristics of households will be
summarized in terms of size, composition, and
structure."
Correspondence: K. Ono-Osaki, United Nations
Population Division, New York, NY 10017. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40504 Saari,
Matti. The development of family structure in Finland in
1960-1987. Yearbook of Population Research in Finland, Vol. 30,
1992. 5-17 pp. Helsinki, Finland. In Eng.
"The purpose of the
article is to study the development of family structure in Finland in
1960-1987....The article describes changes in the numbers of families
of different types, families with young children and families of
different sizes, as well as developments in the regional family
structure during the 1960-1987 period. In addition, developments in
the prevalence of living in a family and living in a family with young
children are studied with reference to the 1981-1987
period."
Correspondence: M. Saari, Statistics Finland,
Population Statistics Division, Helsinki, Finland. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40505 Sittitrai,
Werasit; Wolff, Brent; Knodel, John; Havanon, Napaporn; Podhisita,
Chai. Family size and family well-being: the views of
Thai villagers. Population Studies Center Research Report, No.
90-191, Aug 1990. 47 pp. University of Michigan, Population Studies
Center: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"This report is the last in a
series that examines the relationship between family size and family
well-being in rural Thailand....This report provides a comprehensive
analysis of the qualitative data gathered through the focus groups
component of the study."
Correspondence: University of
Michigan, Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Avenue, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:40506 Speare,
Alden; Avery, Roger. Measuring exits and entries of young
adults from their parents' households. In: American Statistical
Association, 1989 proceedings of the Social Statistics Section. [1989].
369-74 pp. American Statistical Association: Alexandria, Virginia. In
Eng.
"Rates of exit and reentry of persons aged 15 to 29 from their
parent's household are calculated using data from the 1984 panel of the
[U.S.] Survey of Income and Program Participation. Returning to the
nest is shown to be much more likely during the first year away, and
such returns are missed if measures are based only on annual
observations. Logistic regression models of nestleaving and returning
as a function of personal and household characteristics are
tested."
Correspondence: A. Speare, Brown University,
Sociology Department, Providence, RI 02912. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40507 Tastsoglou,
E.; Stubos, G. The Greek immigrant family in the United
States and Canada: the transition from an "institutional" to a
"relational" form (1945-1970). International Migration, Vol. 30,
No. 2, Jun 1992. 155-74 pp. Geneva, Switzerland. In Eng. with sum. in
Fre; Spa.
"This paper attempts to provide a...comprehensive
understanding of changes in the form, practices and values that took
place in the Greek immigrant family in North America after World War
II. Selected theoretical presuppositions will be followed by a
discussion of the form and intra-family relations in the Greek
immigrant family from 1945 to 1970. Finally,...the characteristics of
Greek immigrants from the 1880s to the end of the Great
Depression...will be offered."
Correspondence: E.
Tastsoglou, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 350 Victoria Street,
Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40508 Todorova,
Elka. The child in the incomplete family (results of a
study). [Deteto v nepalnoto semeistvo (rezultati ot esi).]
Naselenie, No. 3, 1992. 90-102 pp. Sofia, Bulgaria. In Bul. with sum.
in Eng.
"Children aged 13-14 from single-parent families
(mother-headed and father-headed households) and intact families are
compared....The main hypothesis states that slight differences may be
expected on the happiness scale....Similarities and dissimilarities of
children's psycho-social image in both settings (mother-headed and
father-headed households) as well as differences between intact-family
children and single-parent children are discussed [in light of] recent
findings about gender socialization, self-identity and single-parent
family dynamics." The geographical scope is
worldwide.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40509 USSR.
Gosudarstvennyi Komitet SSSR po Statistike (Moscow, USSR).
Family size and composition in the USSR. [Chislo i sostav
semei v SSSR.] Vestnik Statistiki, No. 8, 1991. 52-5 pp. Moscow, USSR.
In Rus.
Trends in family size and composition in the USSR over the
past 30 years are analyzed, based on data from censuses conducted since
1959. Trends are examined according to territory and urban or rural
area. Aspects considered include changes in the number of families,
family size, incidence of divorce, single-parent families, and ethnic
composition.
Correspondence: Gosudarstvennyi Komitet SSSR
po Statistike, ul. Kirova 39, 103450 Moscow, Russia. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40510 van de
Walle, Etienne. Fertility transition, conscious choice,
and numeracy. Demography, Vol. 29, No. 4, Nov 1992. 487-502 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"The article explores the hypothesis that
numeracy about children appeared historically in various times and
places, and that the conceptualization of family size was a necessary
condition for adopting family limitation....We will begin by drawing on
information from several contemporary African societies to show that in
the recent past substantial proportions of women would not give a
numerical answer to questions on desired family size, even with
strenuous probing by aggressive interviewers. We then look for
evidence of numeracy in the western European past, surveying memoirs,
autobiographies, novels, and paintings from England and France. These
materials are unconventional sources for demographers, but they are the
only available means to tell us about the mentalities of western
European pretransition populations."
Correspondence: E. van
de Walle, University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center,
Philadelphia, PA 19104. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:40511 Volkov,
A. Family and household. [Sem'ya i domokhozyaistvo.]
Vestnik Statistiki, No. 7, 1991. 40-6 pp. Moscow, USSR. In Rus.
The
author discusses the importance of family and household statistics for
analyzing and understanding trends in population growth and other
demographic processes. Problems with methods currently used to collect
and organize data on families are described, with a focus on the need
to change some of the methodology and terminology used in population
censuses and surveys. The geographical focus is on the
USSR.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40512 Wang,
Jichuan. A method for measuring desired number of
children. Population Studies Center Research Report, No. 90-181,
Jun 1990. 18 pp. University of Michigan, Population Studies Center: Ann
Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"The method introduced in the present
paper proposes a new approach to estimate desired number of children.
It can be used not only to estimate fertility preference, but also to
model the effect of fertility preference on fertility-related behavior
at [the] individual level." The method is applied to data collected in
1987 in Shifang county, Sichuan, China.
Correspondence:
University of Michigan, Population Studies Center, 1225 South
University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40513 Ye, Xiaoye;
Huang, Ying. Household population multiple-condition
development equations and their application. Chinese Journal of
Population Science, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1990. 219-27 pp. New York, New York.
In Eng.
"Using the principle of parity progression of women's
fertility and the concept of 'family marker', this essay establishes a
household population multiple-condition development equation set....The
household's female demographic conditions described by the equations
include the women's marriages, parity, the number of surviving
children, and family markers. The evolution of the demographic
conditions of Chinese families in the next 50 years is predicted and
analyzed using these equations and data obtained in the country's 1987
sample survey of 1% of the population."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:40514 Zeng, Yi;
Li, Xiaoli; Ma, Zhongdong. A Chinese female postnuptial
leaving home model--a procedure for analyzing main parameters alpha and
beta in the setting up, testing and estimation of the model.
Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1991. 205-18 pp.
New York, New York. In Eng.
"The first section of this
article...sets up a model for leaving home after marriage that is
suited to China's situation. The second section performs a statistical
test and verification of the formulated model for leaving home after
marriage. The third section...proposes a method for analyzing the main
parameters...in the model...." The model is set up along the lines of
the Brass-Gompertz relational fertility model.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40515 Zeng,
Yi. An analysis of changing trends in China's urban and
rural households. Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 2,
No. 3, 1990. 187-99 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
Data for rural
and urban households in China for 1986 are analyzed and compared.
After an overview of household characteristics and analysis methods,
the author presents data concerning marital status, parity, dependency
burdens, and household size and
composition.
Correspondence: Y. Zeng, Beijing University,
Institution of Population Studies, Beijing, China. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:40516 Zhang,
Kaidi. Family marriage and fertility in a matriarchal
society--social survey of the Naxi nationality in Ninglang County,
Yunnan Province. Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 2,
No. 3, 1990. 247-56 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
Family
characteristics and fertility trends in 1990 among the Mosuo of
Ninglang County, China, are described. Among the findings the author
notes that "the Mosuo people...still remain in a...matrilineal clan
society of 'two-spouse' marriages. In the family, all activities and
production are presided over by the female elder....The Mosuo mostly
practice a style of 'visiting marriage' where the woman does not take
up permanent residence in the man's home....The two partners belong to
two different economic units, as a result of which union and disunion
are an easy matter, and are unrestricted. From beginning to end they
are both members of their own mother's family or sister's family, and
take part in its productive activities."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
