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In this paper the choice between marriage and unmarried cohabitation as a first union by young adults is studied. A hazard analysis is performed on a sample of 590 26-year-old men and women from the Netherlands. Students are much less likely to start a union in general, and marriage in particular, than are other categories of young adults. Young adults living at home are less likely to enter a consensual union than those living on their own. Religious young adults are much less likely to enter a consensual union and much more likely to marry than are non-religious ones. Educational attainments at age 16 do not influence union formation.
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Cet article étudie le choix des jeunes adultes entre mariage et cohabitation pour leur première union : une analyse, utilisant un modèle à risques proportionnels, est effectuée sur un échantillon de 590 jeunes hommes et jeunes femmes âgés de 26 ans en Hollande. Les étudiants ont une plus faible probabilité de s'engager dans une union en général, et plus particulièrement dans un mariage, que les autres catégories de jeunes. Les jeunes vivant chez leurs parents ont également une plus faible probabilité d'entrer dans une union consensuelle que ceux vivant indépendamment. Enfin les jeunes qui pratiquent une religion ont une plus faible probabilité d'entrer dans une union consensuelle et une plus forte probabilité de se marier que les non pratiquants. En revanche le niveau d'éducation à 16 ans n'a aucune influence sur les unions à venir.
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This paper was mainly written while the author was affiliated with the Department of Social Research Methodology of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam; his current affiliation is with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Liefbroer, A.C. The choice between a married or unmarried first union by young adults. Eur J Population 7, 273–298 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01796842
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