Dispensing with marriage: marital trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006
Dispensing with marriage: marital trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006
This paper describes marriage and partnership patterns and trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 2000-2006. The study is based on longitudinal, population-based data collected by the Africa Centre demographic surveillance system. We consider whether the high rates of non-marriage among Africans in South Africa reported in the 1980s were reversed following the political transformation underway by the 1990s. Our findings show that marriage has continued to decline with a small increase in cohabitation among unmarried couples, particularly in more urbanised areas. Comparing surveillance and census data, we highlight problems with the use of the ‘living together’ marital status category in a highly mobile population
279-312
Hosegood, V.
c59a89d5-5edc-42dd-b282-f44458fd2993
McGrath, N.
b75c0232-24ec-443f-93a9-69e9e12dc961
Moultrie, T.
622fdd35-a71f-45f7-85a8-61c7a5ce702c
2009
Hosegood, V.
c59a89d5-5edc-42dd-b282-f44458fd2993
McGrath, N.
b75c0232-24ec-443f-93a9-69e9e12dc961
Moultrie, T.
622fdd35-a71f-45f7-85a8-61c7a5ce702c
Hosegood, V., McGrath, N. and Moultrie, T.
(2009)
Dispensing with marriage: marital trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006.
Demographic Research, 20 (13), .
(doi:10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.13).
Abstract
This paper describes marriage and partnership patterns and trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 2000-2006. The study is based on longitudinal, population-based data collected by the Africa Centre demographic surveillance system. We consider whether the high rates of non-marriage among Africans in South Africa reported in the 1980s were reversed following the political transformation underway by the 1990s. Our findings show that marriage has continued to decline with a small increase in cohabitation among unmarried couples, particularly in more urbanised areas. Comparing surveillance and census data, we highlight problems with the use of the ‘living together’ marital status category in a highly mobile population
Text
20-13.pdf
- Version of Record
More information
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 May 2009
Published date: 2009
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 181495
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/181495
PURE UUID: 72dc07ee-ff1e-4b96-8a78-b4fbe7a1c826
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 19 Apr 2011 09:14
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:59
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
T. Moultrie
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics
