Not truly partnerless: Non-residential partnerships and retreat from marriage in Spain

Teresa Castro Martín, Teresa Martín García and Marta Dominguez Folgueras
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Teresa Castro Martín: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Teresa Martín García: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Marta Dominguez Folgueras: Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC)

Demographic Research, 2008, vol. 18, issue 16, 443-468

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.

Keywords: cohabitation; Spain; union formation; partnerships; living apart together (LAT) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.18.16

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