Family Life Course Trajectories: Results of the Sequence Analysis Cover Image

Šeiminio gyvenimo kelio trajektorijos: sekų analizės rezultatai
Family Life Course Trajectories: Results of the Sequence Analysis

Author(s): Aušra Maslauskaitė, Irma Dirsytė
Subject(s): Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Evaluation research, Family and social welfare, Demography and human biology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: demographic development of the family; cohabitation; marriage; children; separation;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the family life course trajectories of 1970–1984 birth cohorts in Lihuania. It applies the sequence analysis methods and is based on the Families and Inequalities Survey Dataset collected in 2019. The method provides the opportunities to examine the family life course in a holistic way and has not been used in family demography research in Lithuania so far. The results prove that cohabitation became a normative event in the family formation process, the duration of cohabitation increases, however marriage remains the dominant family arrangement for childrearing. Clasterization of sequences revealed four models of family life trajectories, that reflect the diversity and de-standartization of the family life course.

  • Issue Year: 31/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 139-147
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Lithuanian