Diversity of Family Structure in Europe Selected characteristics of partnerships, childhood, parenti

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Diversity of Family Structure in Europe-
Selected characteristics of partnerships,
childhood, parenting, and economic well-being
across Europe, around the millennium

• Zsolt SPÉDER
• Demographic Research Institutee
• At the HCSO, Budapest

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Selected topics

• (1)Partnerships of young adults
• Preferences
• Cohabitation or/and marriage
• Differentials
• (2) Family demography of childhood
• Two parent/lone parent/step parents
• How long in the parental home? also Fragmented
  families living with parents
• (3) Poverty the generational profile of economic
  well-being
• (4) Special attention western vs. state
  socialist countries

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Preferences Ideal living arrangements
(females, 2034 years)
Forrás Saját számítás PPAS adatok
felhasználásával.
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Partnership relation of young (25-34 years)
women living alone or in partnership
Eurobarometer adat. Forrás EU népszámlálás,
EB és CC Barometer 2000-2003 alapján saját
számítás.
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Living in marriage(females, 2534 years)
Eurobarometer adat. Forrás EU népszámlálás,
EB és CC Barometer 2000-2003 alapján saját
számítás.
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Living in cohabitation as percentage of all
partnership female, 2534 years
Eurobarometer adat. Forrás EU népszámlálás,
EB és CC Barometer 2000-2003 alapján saját
számítás.
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Ratio of cohabitation as first partnership, at
age 25, women, different age cohorts
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Young womens living arrangementsLiving with
parents alone or with partner and/or child, ages
2534, 2003 ()
Country-groupings Nordic Denmark, Finland,
Sweden Western-Europe Austria, Belgium, France,
Germany, UK, Ireland, Luxemburg, Netherlands
Southern countries Portugal, Spain, Italy,
Greece, Cyprus, Malta Central-Eastern Europe
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia Baltic countries
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Source My own
calculation, European Quality of Life Survey,
European Foundation, Dublin.
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Distribution of 0-4 years children according to
the number of parents
Source Own calculations based on census data for
2001.
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Distribution of children of different ages in
Hungary according to the number of parents, the
type of parents partnership, 2000
Source Own calculations based on census data for
2001.
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Poverty rate () of children (0-17 years) in
European countries, and the USA
Source Förster, d'Ercole (2005).
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Poverty rate () of the oldest population
(75years) in the European countriesand the USA
Source Förster, d'Ercole (2005).
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The contrast between poverty rates of children
and of old aged
Source Förster, d'Ercole (2005).
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Poverty risk profilesof generations in Europe,
around 2000