scholarly journals Partnership formation and dissolution over the life course: applying sequence analysis and event history analysis in the study of recurrent events

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satu Helske ◽  
Fiona Steele ◽  
Katja Kokko ◽  
Eija Räikkönen ◽  
Mervi Eerola
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 698-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN-ZOFIE E. DUVANDER

In Sweden, cohabitation is the norm before marriage and is in many ways equal to marriage. By investigating the transition from cohabitation to marriage, this study seeks to clarify how those who marry differ from those who do not. The study uses the Swedish Family Survey of 1992 together with register data of marriages and births for the following 2 years. Information on partner's attitudes and marriage plans is obtained from a self-administered questionnaire. The risk of marriage for women who were cohabiting at the time of interview is analyzed with event history analysis. The results show that life course stage, economic gains in marriage, and family socialization predict whether cohabiting women will turn their unions into marriages. In addition, attitudes toward leisure and parenthood influence marriage propensities. Marriage plans explain some, but not all, of those effects.


2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satomi Kurosu

Drawing data from the local population registers in two northeastern agricultural villages, this study examines the patterns and factors associated with divorce in preindustrial Japan. Divorce was easy and common during this period. More than two thirds of first marriages dissolved in divorce before individuals reached age fifty. Discrete-time event history analysis is applied to demonstrate how economic condition and household context influenced the likelihood of divorce for females. Risk of divorce was extremely high in the first three years and among uxorilocal marriages. Propensity of divorce increased upon economic stress in the community and among households of lower social status. Presence of parents, siblings, and children had strong bearings on marriage to continue.


Population ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 237 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. ◽  
Karl Ulrich Mayer ◽  
Nancy Brandon Tuma

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-359
Author(s):  
Cordula Zabel

Lone mothers’ poverty rates in Russia were very high in the period following the transition in 1991, and earnings inequalities between women increased. The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent lone mothers’ economic situation may have also influenced their rates of partnership formation. This can add to an understanding of how the influence of growing economic inequalities extends to other areas of the life course as well. The data used is from the Russian Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), and methods of event-history analysis are applied for the empirical investigations. The effect of occupation on partnership formation is compared before and after the transition, as earnings differences between those working in different occupations grew after 1991. The results indicate that lone mothers working in service occupations, in particular, had substantially higher rates of partnership formation than those working in higher-paying professional occupations requiring a university degree, both before and after the transition in 1991. However, no large changes in the effect of occupation on partnership formation are found for the period after 1991 compared to the period before transition. Zusammenfassung Armutsraten von alleinerziehenden Müttern in Russland waren in der Zeit nach dem politischen und ökonomischen Umbruch im Jahr 1991 besonders hoch, und Einkommensungleichheiten zwischen Frauen nahmen in dieser Periode ebenfalls zu. Daher ist die Fragestellung in dieser Studie, inwiefern die ökonomische Situation von Alleinerziehenden auch ihre Übergangsraten in neue Partnerschaften beeinflusst hat. Dies kann dazu beitragen, zu verstehen, inwiefern wachsende ökonomische Ungleichheiten sich auch auf andere Bereiche des Lebenslaufs auswirken. Die empirischen Analysen beruhen auf Daten des russischen Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). Es wird der Einfluss des Berufs auf Partnerschaftsbildungsraten von Alleinerziehenden vor und nach 1991 anhand von Übergangratenmodellen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Alleinerziehende, die im Dienstleistungsbereich arbeiteten, sowohl vor wie auch nach 1991 deutlich höhere Partnerschaftsbildungsraten hatten als Alleinerziehende, die in höher entlohnten Berufen arbeiteten, die einen Universitätsabschluss voraussetzten. Allerdings wurden keine bedeutenden Veränderungen im Einfluss des Berufs auf Partnerschaftsbildungsraten nach 1991, im Vergleich zu vor 1991 gefunden.


1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-357
Author(s):  
Johannes Huinink

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Onno Boonstra ◽  
Maarten Panhuysen

Population registers are recognised to be a very important source for demographic research, because it enables us to study the lifecourse of individuals as well as households. A very good technique for lifecourse analysis is event history analysis. Unfortunately, there are marked differences in the way the data are available in population registers and the way event history analysis expects them to be. The source-oriented approach of computing historical data calls for a ‘five-file structure’, whereas event history analysis only can handle fiat files. In this article, we suggest a series of twelve steps with which population register data can be transposed from a five-file structured database into a ‘flat file’ event history analysis dataset.


Author(s):  
Yujin Kim

In the context of South Korea, characterized by increasing population aging and a changing family structure, this study examined differences in the risk of cognitive impairment by marital status and investigated whether this association differs by gender. The data were derived from the 2006–2018 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. The sample comprised 7,568 respondents aged 45 years or older, who contributed 30,414 person-year observations. Event history analysis was used to predict the odds of cognitive impairment by marital status and gender. Relative to their married counterparts, never-married and divorced people were the most disadvantaged in terms of cognitive health. In addition, the association between marital status and cognitive impairment was much stronger for men than for women. Further, gender-stratified analyses showed that, compared with married men, never-married men had a higher risk of cognitive impairment, but there were no significant effects of marital status for women.


1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (S6) ◽  
pp. 33-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly J. McCammon

Historians and social scientists often investigate the conditions that influence the occurrence of particular events. For instance, a researcher might be concerned with the causes of revolutionary action in some countries or the forces that unleash racial rioting in major cities. Or perhaps the researcher wishes to examine why industrial workers decide to strike or what prompts policy-makers to pass new legislation. In each of these examples, a qualitative shift occurs, from a circumstance without racial rioting in a particular city, for instance, to one with racial rioting. Event history analysis can aid researchers in uncovering the conditions that lead to such a shift.


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