Volume 18 - Article 16 | Pages 443–468
Not truly partnerless: Non-residential partnerships and retreat from marriage in Spain
| Date received: | 15 Oct 2007 |
| Date published: | 06 Jun 2008 |
| Word count: | 6129 |
| Keywords: | cohabitation, living apart together (LAT), partnerships, Spain, union formation |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2008.18.16 |
Abstract
In Spain, nearly two-thirds of women aged 20-34 have not yet entered their first union. However, almost half of them have a stable partner in a different household. Hence, the drop in marriage rates and low prevalence of cohabitation cannot be rightly interpreted as a decline in partnership formation, but rather as a postponement of co-residential unions. This paper examines the prevalence and determinants of non-residential stable partnerships among young adults (women aged 20-34), in relation to cohabitation and marriage, using a multinomial logit model of current partnership type. The analysis is based on data from the 1999 Spanish Fertility Survey.
Author's Affiliation
Teresa Castro Martín - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
Marta Dominguez Folgueras - Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC), France
Teresa Martín García - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
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