%0 Journal Article %1 andersson2016lifetable %A Andersson, Gunnar %A Thomson, Elizabeth %A Duntava, Aija %D 2016 %J Stockholm Research Reports in Demography %K use:doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC6:1.0.0 from:nina_woerlein %T Life-table Representations of Family Dynamics in the 21st Century %X “Any sound investigation of a demographic phenomenon must originate from some knowledge about its very basic patterns: how common the demographic event of interest is, at what ages it typically occurs, and how such patterns in a country differ from those in other countries and periods” (Andersson and Philipov 2002). The above assertion was the rationale for a key resource for cross-national comparative research on family dynamics in the 1980s and 1990s. Andersson and Philipov (2002) generated a standard set of life-tables and other descriptive measures for family formation and family dissolution, focusing in particular on the role of cohabitation and parenthood; see also Andersson (2002a, 2002b). They used data from the Fertility and Family Surveys that were conducted in a large number of European countries in 1989-1997, and comparable data from the US National Survey of Family Growth. Appropriate data were available for 16 countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, the USA, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. For Belgium the data covered only Flanders; East and West Germany were treated as separate countries as the retrospective biographical events occurred mostly prior to reunification.

@article{andersson2016lifetable, abstract = {“Any sound investigation of a demographic phenomenon must originate from some knowledge about its very basic patterns: how common the demographic event of interest is, at what ages it typically occurs, and how such patterns in a country differ from those in other countries and periods” (Andersson and Philipov 2002). The above assertion was the rationale for a key resource for cross-national comparative research on family dynamics in the 1980s and 1990s. Andersson and Philipov (2002) generated a standard set of life-tables and other descriptive measures for family formation and family dissolution, focusing in particular on the role of cohabitation and parenthood; see also Andersson (2002a, 2002b). They used data from the Fertility and Family Surveys that were conducted in a large number of European countries in 1989-1997, and comparable data from the US National Survey of Family Growth. Appropriate data were available for 16 countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, the USA, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. For Belgium the data covered only Flanders; East and West Germany were treated as separate countries as the retrospective biographical events occurred mostly prior to reunification.}, added-at = {2016-08-24T12:13:25.000+0200}, author = {Andersson, Gunnar and Thomson, Elizabeth and Duntava, Aija}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/267221eadd49a4d99b13fdf7ea34db06e/neps.dc}, interhash = {242b3b771ce6cc5f304ef1fa68610b6f}, intrahash = {67221eadd49a4d99b13fdf7ea34db06e}, journal = {Stockholm Research Reports in Demography}, keywords = {use:doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC6:1.0.0 from:nina_woerlein}, timestamp = {2016-08-24T12:13:25.000+0200}, title = {Life-table Representations of Family Dynamics in the 21st Century}, year = 2016 }