Age Sex Marital Status And Common Law Status

Age, Sex, Marital Status and Common-law Status

Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends

This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional heterogeneity in unmarried cohabitation, covering: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the Andean region, Brazil, and the Southern Cone. It also explores the diverse meanings of cohabitation from a cross-national perspective and examines the theoretical implications of recent developments on family change in the Americas. The book uses data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS), a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. This large sample size enables an empirical testing of one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition. With its unique geographical scope, this book will provide researchers with a new understanding into the spectacular rise in premarital cohabitation in the Americas, which has become one of the most salient trends in partnership formation in the region.

Age, Sex, Marital Status and Common-law Status

This series includes five general reference products - the Preview of Products and Services; the Catalogue; the Dictionary; the Handbook and the Technical reports - as well as geography reference products - GeoSuite and Reference maps. Product description, Technical reports examine the quality of data from the 1996 Census, a large and complex undertaking. While considerable effort was taken to ensure high quality standards throughout each step, the results are subject to a certain degree of error. Each report looks at the collection and processing operations, presents results from data evaluation, as well as notes on historical comparability. Technical reports are aimed at moderate and sophisticated users but are written in a manner which could make them useful to all census data users. Most of the technical reports have been cancelled with the exception of "Age, sex, marital status and common-law status", "Coverage" and "Sampling and weighting". These reports will be available as bilingual publications as well as being available in both official languages on the Internet as free products. An additional product titled "Data quality and the census" has been added to this series which touches the issue of data quality for all census variables.