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Modernisation, demographic change and state-level variations in household composition in India
Asian Population Studies ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 , DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2021.1891736
Etienne Breton 1, 2
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ABSTRACT

This study examines whether modernisation and demographic change explain subnational household variations in India using state-level data from six rounds of the National Sample Survey harmonised by IPUMS-International. Results highlight significant regional differences in living arrangements, mainly between south India, where joint households are rare, and selected states located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, where joint households are most prevalent. Key indicators of modernisation (urbanisation, occupational diversification, educational expansion) and demographic change explain roughly half of these differences, although modernisation indicators have a much weaker explanatory power than demographic ones. Further analyses show that men's rising age at marriage is linked to a modest increase in nuclear households, whereas educational expansion may have hindered this increase. These findings support the claim that the preference for joint households has long been considerably weaker – if at all present – in selected southern states, a nuance largely ignored in explanations of household change in India.



中文翻译:

印度家庭构成的现代化、人口变化和州级变化

摘要

本研究使用来自 IPUMS-International 协调的六轮国家抽样调查的州级数据,检验现代化和人口变化是否可以解释印度次国家家庭的变化。结果突出了生活安排的显着区域差异,主要是在印度南部,联合家庭很少见,而位于印度-恒河平原的选定邦之间,联合家庭最为普遍。现代化的关键指标(城市化、职业多样化、教育扩张)和人口变化大约解释了这些差异的一半,尽管现代化指标的解释力比人口统计指标弱得多。进一步的分析表明,男性结婚年龄的提高与核心家庭的适度增加有关,而教育扩张可能阻碍了这种增长。这些调查结果支持这样的说法,即在选定的南部各州,对联合家庭的偏好长期以来一直相当弱(如果有的话),在解释印度的家庭变化时,这一细微差别在很大程度上被忽略了。

更新日期:2021-03-04
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