60:10364 Bracher,
Michael; Santow, Gigi; Morgan, S. Philip; Trussell, James.
Marriage dissolution in Australia: models and explanations.
Population Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, Nov 1993. 403-25 pp. London,
England. In Eng.
"Interest in rising rates of marriage dissolution
has been accompanied by curiosity concerning structural as well as
temporal predictors of dissolution....We examine the association
between these factors and marriage dissolution, and use event-history
data from a nationally representative sample survey of Australian
women. The risk of marriage dissolution increased dramatically over
the lives of our respondents. Year of birth, and age at marriage
provide the most parsimonious characterization of the temporal
correlates of marriage dissolution. Characteristics that were fixed by
the time of marriage provide additional explanatory leverage. However,
the most potent predictors of marriage dissolution are related to
characteristics of the unfolding marriage itself; namely, patterns of
employment, home-ownership, and region of
residence."
Correspondence: M. Bracher, Australian National
University, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,
Health Transition Centre, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:10365
Castiglioni, Maria. Differential nuptiality
analysis of Italian women born in 1919-1968 using individual
retrospective data. [Analisi della nuzialita differenziale nelle
generazioni di donne italiane nate fra 1919 e 1968 utilizzando dati
individuali retrospettivi.] Serie Tesi di Dottorato, No. 1, 1993. 226
pp. Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento Statistico:
Florence, Italy. In Ita.
The nuptiality of female cohorts in Italy
is studied by connecting a classical analysis of marriage probabilities
with event-history techniques with covariates, by means of
non-proportional hazard models. The covariates include cohort of
birth, place of birth and of residence, education, work experience,
premarital cohabitation, and premarital conception. Italian official
data from the 1983 ISTAT Family Survey are used. Some problems in
using survey data are also examined, such as quality of data,
weighting, categorization of covariates, and model
fitting.
Correspondence: Universita degli Studi di Firenze,
Dipartimento Statistico, Piazza San Marco 4, 50121 Florence, Italy.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:10387 Baranyai,
Istvan. Integrating types of households and families.
[A haztartas- es csaladtipusok integralasa.] Statisztikai Szemle, Vol.
71, No. 12, Dec 1993. 965-76 pp. Budapest, Hungary. In Hun. with sum.
in Eng; Rus.
The author outlines a household classification system
that takes demographic, social, and economic criteria into account. He
"also deals with a question of methodological character, namely how
processing the personal and housing data of population censuses in the
function of types of households would provide information which can be
utilized better than before. Applying this method would also make data
processing more economical, since the system mentioned above integrates
the types of households and families...[so] that the latter
appear...separately from
non-family...households."
Correspondence: I. Baranyai,
Kozponti Statisztikai Hivatal, Keleti Karoly Utca 5-7, P.O. Box 51,
1525 Budapest II, Hungary. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
60:10388 Benitez
Perez, Maria E. The Cuban family: principal
sociodemographic features that have characterized its development and
dynamics. [La familia cubana: principales rasgos
sociodemograficos que han caracterizado su desarrollo y dinamica.]
Estudios Demograficos y Urbanos, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, May-Dec 1992. 479-92,
622 pp. Mexico City, Mexico. In Spa. with sum. in Eng.
"This study
deals with the principal sociodemographic features which have
characterized the development and dynamics of the Cuban family during
the last decade. It also describes the way in which sociocultural
changes taking place in Cuba have influenced the family. The article
includes an analysis of average age at first marriage or union, types
of marriage, changes in fertility rates (and how women contribute to
these changes depending on their age), and the dissolution of the
family unit."
Correspondence: M. E. Benitez Perez,
Universidad de la Habana, Centro de Estudios Demograficos, Avenida 41,
Numero 2003 entre 20 y 22, Playa, Havana, Cuba. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
