Las dinámicas de nupcialidad, fecundidad y formación de los hogares de la población española han cambiado en los últimos 30 años, siguiendo un patrón típico acorde a la Segunda Transición Demográfica (STD). El objetivo de este artículo consiste en explorar la evolución conjunta de dichas dinámicas, en el nivel provincial, a través de la elaboración...
On 1 January 2022, the population of France was 67.8 million, 187,000 more than on 1 January 2021. Numbers of births, abortions, and marriages in 2021 were higher than in 2020 but did not return to the levels observed before the COVID-19 pandemic (2019). Mortality followed a similar pattern, with an improvement in 2021, but not a return to pre-cris...
Published in Genus
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems and legal identity systems have become increasingly recognized as catalytic both for inclusive development and for monitoring population dynamics spanning the entire life course. Population scientists have a long history of contributing to the strengthening of CRVS and legal identity systems an...
Published in Genus
Recent literature on fertility trend in Rwanda indicates that the country is undergoing a fertility transition since fertility has declined from 6.1 births to 4.2 between 2005 and 2015. According to the fertility transition theory, the decline of fertility follows change in nuptiality. In Rwanda, the trend in nuptiality pattern over the period has ...
Published in Journal of population research (Canberra, A.C.T.)
An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct fertility effects of people getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that...
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Some of the most relevant processes that describe the social change of the Spanish population are visible when we study nuptiality, marriage timing and assortative mating. In this article I discuss the importance of weddings in the municipality of Cieza from the 20th century to nowadays, as well as the variations experienced in the age to get marri...
Published in Demography
The demographic literature on union formation in post-communist Europe typically documents retreat from marriage and increase in cohabitation. However, sociological and anthropological studies of post-Soviet Central Asia often point to a resurgence of various traditional norms and practices, including those surrounding marriage, that were suppresse...
This paper is about the study of the marriage of a rural village of Caceres during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first one of the nineteenth century. Given that this variable allows an approach to the economic, social and demographic situation of the population, we have analyzed the diverse components and factors that affect in ...
L’article évalue la comparabilité des enquêtes et des recensements pour estimer les tendances de l’âge au mariage des femmes en Afrique. L’indicateur utilisé est l’âge médian au premier mariage tiré de la proportion de célibataires par âge. Deux corpus de données sont utilisés : d’une part, une base panafricaine sur la nuptialité qui permet d’évalu...
