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Lauren Suchman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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methodologic approach to sampling and field based data collection for a large scale in depth interview study the social position and family formation spaff project
PLOS ONE, 2019Co-Authors: Diana Romero, Amy Kwan, Lauren SuchmanAbstract:Over the past several decades there have been dramatic shifts in demographic patterns pertaining to family formation, with declining and Delayed Marriage and childbearing, and increased cohabitation in the United States and other Western industrialized nations. These trends in family demography have been predominantly studied using large-scale datasets, which have identified total population and subgroup trends over time, including differences by age, gender, racial/ethnic, economic, educational, religious, and other characteristics. However, there is limited knowledge and understanding of how individuals across different levels of social position, as well as other important characteristics, make decisions around forming families. This lack of qualitative data on contemporary attitudes regarding family formation has hampered our ability to more completely understand the factors driving behaviors pertaining to the large-scale (ie, international) shifts in demographic trends. The Social Position and Family Formation (SPAFF) project is an in-depth interview study that used quantitative data to guide recruitment of a large sample for qualitative interview data collection on factors influencing different aspects of family formation among heterosexual females and males (18–35 years) in the context of individuals’ social position. This methodological paper describes the use of a ‘quantitatively-informed’ purposive sampling approach in a large metropolitan area to collect qualitative data (through in-depth interviews) from a large sample (n = 200), utilizing web-based tools for successful community-based recruitment and project management.
Tey Nai Peng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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trends in Delayed and non Marriage in peninsular malaysia
Asian Population Studies, 2007Co-Authors: Tey Nai PengAbstract:The Marriage pattern in Malaysia has changed dramatically since the 1940s. The general trend is one of increasing age at Marriage and non-Marriage. Between 1970 and 2000, the singulate mean age at Marriage among men and women increased about three years each, from 25.5 years and 22.0 years to 28.8 years and 25.3 years, respectively. During the same period, the proportion of never married among those aged 30–34 doubled from 12 per cent to 25 per cent among males and from 6 per cent to 12 per cent among females. This paper uses data from population censuses to examine the trends and correlates of Delayed Marriage for the three main ethnic groups in Peninsular Malaysia. Data from sample surveys are also used to shed some light on contemporary Marriage behaviour. Malaysia has made great strides in socio-economic development that benefited all segments of society. However, the effects of socio-economic development on Marriage postponement and non-Marriage have been stronger for non-Malays than for Malays. This...
Stewart E Tolnay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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generation ethnicity and Marriage historical patterns in the northern united states
Demography, 1993Co-Authors: Nancy S Landale, Stewart E TolnayAbstract:Immigration was a prominent feature of American life during the early decades of the twentieth century. About 40% of the white population was of foreign birth or parentage, and immigrants were increasingly from diverse national origins. Using data from the Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1910 U.S. Census, we examine generational and ethnic differences in marital timing. The analysis reveals a striking pattern of Delayed Marriage among native whites with foreign parents, but marked ethnic variation in the extent of Marriage delay within the second generation. We hypothesize that locational factors, especially diverse economic opportunities, were important in shaping this Marriage pattern. Separate multilevel analyses are conducted for females and for males living in urban and in rural places. Although significant effects for a variety of contextual factors are found, generational and ethnic differences in nuptial timing persist in multivariate models.
Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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family theory competing perspectives in social demography
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001Co-Authors: Valerie Kincade OppenheimerAbstract:This article examines two competing theoretical perspectives on recent changes in Marriage and family behavior in industrial societies, their determinants and consequences. Each focuses on the role of one of two fundamental pillars underlying most demographic research on the family: (a) the implications for family behavior of an independent nuclear family system; and (b) the importance of sex-role specialization in Marriage. The specialization perspective argues that the desirability of Marriage is based on sex-role specialization with women focusing on domestic production (and reproduction) and men on market work. Hence it concludes that the rapid postwar rise in women's employment made them increasingly independent of Marriage, leading to a retreat from Marriage as indicated by sharply declining Marriage and fertility rates, and rising marital instability as well as nonmarital cohabitation. The specialization position has been subject to several major criticisms. Some of the most important are: contrary to the theory's argument, empirical research shows that women in a better labor-market position are usually more rather than less likely to marry; the theory is one of nonMarriage while the phenomenon observed is primarily Delayed Marriage; and sex-role specialization in an independent nuclear family system tends to be a high-risk strategy and historically often required the use of the family's adolescent and young adult children to achieve economic stability, a role that now is taken over by wives. The independent nuclear family perspective has focused on how the changing economic position of young people has affected the ability of couples to be economically self-supporting. It has argued that the recent well-documented rise in economic inequality has increased the difficulty of assortative mating and of establishing an independent household. Studies indicate that men's employment stability and earnings have a strong positive effect on their Marriage chances; moreover, the length of time it takes men to achieve career ‘maturity’ varies substantially among and within socioeconomic groups, creating significant differences in the age at Marriage. However, the extent to which these processes can account for Marriage trends during the last quarter of the twentieth century remains to be established.
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womens rising employment and the future of the family in industrial societies
Population and Development Review, 1994Co-Authors: Valerie Kincade OppenheimerAbstract:A critical analysis was provided of the economic independence hypothesis and Beckers theories of Marriage and family behavior. Historically there have been assessments of the fit between womens labor force participation and patterns of Marriage formation divorce and fertility in order to determine how much coincidence played a role. Also examined were how well the theories of womens economic independence explain Delayed Marriage nonMarriage or both. Empirical evidence at the micro level was used to indicate the extent of support for economic independence theories. Specific attention was directed to Gary Beckers specialization theories; it was posited that specialization might actually put families and Marriage at risk. Recent trends have shown a tremendous decline in mens labor market position which theories need to begin addressing. The specialization-trading model of Marriage of marital relationships inevitably leads to a prediction of a decline in Marriage. Low fertility means reduced need for womens specialization in home production and a low productivity population. A more adaptive family strategy for a modern industrial society would be based on both parents working. Increased womens employment serves as a substitute for the work of their children for enhancing social mobility and as a stabilizing factor in the familys economic equilibrium over the development cycle. When mens economic position and its impact on Marriage behavior is modeled by Wilson and Neckerman a threshold effect emerges where for instance the rise of black female-headed families in the US is considered reflective of the decline in the Marriageable supply of men. Census data on moderately well educated and less well educated males indicated a deteriorated labor market position between 1950 and 1980. 1) Mens labor market declines accelerated after 1970. 2) 25-34 year old male non-graduates as well as very young men experienced labor market declines. 3) Male high school graduates also suffered declines in employment particularly Blacks. These three trends occurred throughout the declines in prime marrying ages. Chinhui Juhn revealed that mens unemployment declined over time and once out of work there was little reentry into the work force. Deterioration in earnings was also evident. Earnings ratio data can obscure relationships. Mens declining earnings are effecting the ratio because womens earnings have remained stable since the mid 1980s. Even the economic position of college graduates who experienced income declines in the 1970s does not explain the continued rise in Delayed Marriage by the 1980s.
Johannes Huinink - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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human capital investments or norms of role transition how women s schooling and career affect the process of family formation
American Journal of Sociology, 1991Co-Authors: Hanspeter Blossfeld, Johannes HuininkAbstract:Proponents of the "new home economics" hypothesize that women's growing economic independence largely accounts for the rise in Delayed Marriage and motherhood in industrialized societies. This article assesses this hypothesis for the Federal Republic of Gernamy by estimating the dynamic effects of women's educational and career investments on the timing of family events. Eventhistory analysis shows that the delaying effect on the timing of the first Marriage across cohorts does not result from an increase in the quality of women's human capital investiments as posited by the new home economics. Rather, women's extended participation in schooling delays their transition to adulthood, an effect aligned with normative expectations that young women in school are "not ready" for Marriage and motherhood. Increasing career resources, however, do lead women to postpone or avoid having children.