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Trends in Marriage Formation in Sweden 1971–1993

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  • Gunnar Andersson

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a system of annual indices of the risks of marriage and remarriage and to use the system to display such marriage risks for Swedish women over the years since 1971. Our indices are produced by applying indirect standardization to register data. The propensity to marry decreased considerably during the 1970s and it has continued to decrease also during the first half of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. The decrease in marriage risks is mostly due to a decreased propensity to marry among never-married women with no children. The decrease is not so strong for never-married women with children and for divorced women. A sharp, but only temporary, deviation from the general pattern of Swedish marriage-risk trends occurred in 1989, when the number of marriages formed increased dramatically in response to the near-abolition of the public widow's pensions for women who were not married at the beginning of 1990.

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  • Gunnar Andersson, 1998. "Trends in Marriage Formation in Sweden 1971–1993," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 14(2), pages 157-178, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:14:y:1998:i:2:d:10.1023_a:1006003520829
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1006003520829
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    1. Claudia Geist, 2017. "Marriage Formation in Context: Four Decades in Comparative Perspective," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-16, January.
    2. Björklund, Anders & Ginther, Donna K. & Sundström, Marianne, 2010. "Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Impact of Legal Marriage in Sweden," Working Paper Series 3/2010, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.
    3. Gunnar Andersson, 1999. "Childbearing Trends in Sweden 1961--1997," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 15(1), pages 1-24, March.

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