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Incidence of four-generational family lineages
— is timing of fertility or mortality a better explanation? | | Author(s) | Sarah H Matthews, Rongjun Sun |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp S99-S106 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Multi generation families ; Longevity ; Demography ; Social class ; Ethnic groups ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Most of the adult population in the early 1990s was in three-generation lineages. The authors assembled data from Waves 1 and 2 of the US National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1988 and 1992-1994) to estimate the proportion of adults in four or more generations for the Wave 2 sample. When necessary, various decision rules were made to overcome an absence of information about specific generations. Relationships between lineage length and sociodemographic variables were examined using logistic regression. 32% of the respondents were in lineages comprising four or more generations. Blacks and individuals of lower social class were more likely to be in four-generation lineages, especially shorter-gapped lineages. The verdict is still out on whether population ageing results in the wholesale verticalisation of lineages. Social differentials for four-generation lineages in the early 1990s were mainly due to differences in the timing of fertility, rather than mortality. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504205 A |
| Classmark | SJC: BGA: S8: T: TK: 49: 7T |
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