Ideal ages for family formation among immigrants in Europe
Ideal ages for family formation among immigrants in Europe
This paper investigates ideal ages for marriage and parenthood among immigrants from over 160 countries origins living in 25 European countries. Ideals regarding the timing of family formation are indicative of how individuals perceive the family life course and provide insight into family-life aspirations and the meaning attached to these transitions. Using data from the European Social Survey (Round 3, 2006; N = 6,330) and a cross-classified multilevel modeling approach, we investigate associations between the influences of the dominant family formation timing patterns in countries of origin and settlement, individual-level characteristics, and ideal ages. We make innovative use of a standard demographic measure, the singulate mean age of marriage, to measure family formation patterns. Results suggests that residential context influences are associated with the timing ideals of all migrants, but origin influences seem to be associated with the ideals of only the most recent migrants
family formation, ideals, immigrants, second generation, family change, Europe
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Holland, Jennifer A.
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de Valk, Helga A. G.
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December 2013
Holland, Jennifer A.
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de Valk, Helga A. G.
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Holland, Jennifer A. and de Valk, Helga A. G.
(2013)
Ideal ages for family formation among immigrants in Europe.
Advances in Life Course Research, 18 (4), .
(doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2013.08.002).
Abstract
This paper investigates ideal ages for marriage and parenthood among immigrants from over 160 countries origins living in 25 European countries. Ideals regarding the timing of family formation are indicative of how individuals perceive the family life course and provide insight into family-life aspirations and the meaning attached to these transitions. Using data from the European Social Survey (Round 3, 2006; N = 6,330) and a cross-classified multilevel modeling approach, we investigate associations between the influences of the dominant family formation timing patterns in countries of origin and settlement, individual-level characteristics, and ideal ages. We make innovative use of a standard demographic measure, the singulate mean age of marriage, to measure family formation patterns. Results suggests that residential context influences are associated with the timing ideals of all migrants, but origin influences seem to be associated with the ideals of only the most recent migrants
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 August 2013
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 August 2013
Published date: December 2013
Keywords:
family formation, ideals, immigrants, second generation, family change, Europe
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Social Statistics & Demography
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Local EPrints ID: 363078
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363078
ISSN: 1879-6974
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Helga A. G. de Valk
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