Volume 8 - Article 5 | Pages 107–150
Pathways to stepfamily formation in Europe: Results from the FFS
| Date received: | 08 Oct 2002 |
| Date published: | 12 Mar 2003 |
| Word count: | 6526 |
| Keywords: | childbearing histories, Europe, Fertility and Family Survey (FFS), macro-level indicators, preunion children, stepfamily, union histories |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.5 |
Abstract
Increasing proportions of couples are making childbearing decisions in stepfamilies but there has been no general comparative picture across European countries on stepfamily formation. The present paper aims to fill this gap and provides a comparison of European countries using macro-level indicators that describe union formation and dissolution and childbearing. We use the individual-level data files (standard recode files) of Fertility and Family Surveys from 19 European countries.
Our results highlight the different pathways to a stepfamily in Europe, and show that in most European countries a considerable proportion of women form a stepfamily in childbearing ages, which needs to be considered in studies of fertility.
Author's Affiliation
Alexia Prskawetz - Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), Austria
Andres Vikat - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Switzerland
Dimiter Philipov - Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), Austria
Henriette Engelhardt - Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
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