Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
Johan Heldal

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol8/1/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.1

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Abstract

A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited time period.
This study is based on a sample of 129 651 individuals from the 1980 Census. From this data bank, a sample of couples is constructed. Patterns of educational homogamy across five ten-year cohorts, born between 1900 and 1949, are compared. The results show a decline in educational homogamy across these cohorts, both in absolute terms and when controlling for the general increase in educational level during the period.

Author's affiliation
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
University of Oslo, Norway
Johan Heldal
Statistics Norway, Norway

Keywords
assortative mating, cohort analysis, homogamy, marriage

Word count (Main text)
5634

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