Maria Iacovou
Alexandra J. Skew

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/14/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.14

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Abstract

In this paper we present indicators of household structure for 26 of the 27 countries of the post-enlargement European Union. As well as broad indicators of household type, we present statistics on single-person and extended-family households, and on the households of children and older people. Our main aim is to assess the extent to which household structure differs between the "old" and "new" Member States of the European Union. We find that most of the Eastern European countries may be thought of as lying on the same North-North-Western-Southern continuum defined for the "old" EU Member States, and constituting an "extreme form" of the Southern European model of living arrangements, which we term the "Eastern" model. However, the Baltic states do not fit easily onto this continuum.

Author's affiliation
Maria Iacovou
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Alexandra J. Skew
University of Essex, United Kingdom

Keywords
Europe, European Union, family, household

Word count (Main text)
7865

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