Marriage, Marital Status and Relationships

Gordon A. Carmichael
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Gordon A. Carmichael: Australian National University, School of Demography

Chapter Chapter 5 in Fundamentals of Demographic Analysis: Concepts, Measures and Methods, 2016, pp 213-245 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Unlike births and deaths, the two types of events of primary interest to demographers, marriage is not a biological event but a social event. Historically it has been of interest to demographers principally because of its close connection with the process of fertility. In most societies marriage has traditionally signalled the commencement of regular sexual activity and hence of serious exposure to the risk of childbearing. Equally, provided the biological procceses associated with getting older have not already done so, marriage dissolution, whether through divorce or widowhood, tends (sometimes only temporarily) to terminate exposure to the risk of childbearing.

Keywords: Marriage Rate; Consensual Union; Formal Marriage; Marriage Timing; Marital Fertility Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23255-3_5

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