Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low- and middle-income countries

被引:13
作者
Castro Torres, Andres Felipe [1 ]
Pesando, Luca Maria [2 ,3 ]
Kohler, Hans-Peter [4 ]
Furstenberg, Frank [4 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Demog Res, Konrad Zuse Str 1, D-18057 Rostock, Germany
[2] McGill Univ, Dept Sociol, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[3] McGill Univ, Ctr Populat Dynam, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[4] Univ Penn, Dept Sociol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; FERTILITY DECLINE; GENDER REVOLUTION; DEVELOPING-WORLD; MARRIAGE; PATTERNS; TRENDS; TRANSITION; WOMENS; RECONSIDERATION;
D O I
10.1002/psp.2531
中图分类号
C921 [人口统计学];
学科分类号
摘要
Using 254 Demographic and Health Surveys from 75 low- and middle-income countries, this study shows how the joint examination of family characteristics across rural and urban areas provides new insights for understanding global family change. We operationalise this approach by building family configurations: a set of interrelated features that describe different patterns of family formation and structure. These features include partnership (marriage/unions) regimes and their stability, gender relations, household composition and reproduction. Factorial and clustering techniques allow us to summarise these family features into three factorial axes and six discrete family configurations. We provide an in-depth description of these configurations, their spatial distribution and their changes over time. Global family change is uneven because it emerges from complex interplays between the relative steadiness of longstanding arrangements for forming families and organising gender relations, and the rapidly changing dynamics observed in the realms of fertility, contraception, and timing of family formation.
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