Dynamics of fertility and partnership in Europe insights and lessons from comparative research (United Nations, 2002)
At head of title: United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe; United Nations Population Fund; Population and Family Study Centre, Flemish Scientific Institute; European Commission. - Vol. 2 edited by Erik Klijzing and Martine Corijn. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references
Vol. 1 - Fertility and partnership : why the FFS and what did we learn from it? ... New behaviour patterns: Sub-replacement fertility ; Birth control ; Extramarital childbearing ; Later childbearing ; Retreat of marriage ; Cohabitation ; Behaviour interactions - Miroslav Macura and Gijs Beet with Marion Burkimsher -- - Is low fertility post-modern and beyond the action of governments? - Dirk van de Kaa -- - Origin and history of the FFS project : achievements and limitations - Robert Cliquet -- - Eastern and Western Europe's fertility and partnership patterns : selected developments from 1987 to 1999 - Miroslav Macura, Yumiko Mochizuki-Sternberg and Jose Lara Garcia -- - The state of European unions : an analysis of partnership formation and dissolution - Kathleen Kiernan -- - Interrelationships between partnership and fertility behaviour - Antonella Pinnelli [and others] --
- New approaches and methodological innovations in the study of partnership and fertility behaviour - Daniel Courgeau -- - FFS and the international database : precautions for use - Patrick Festy and France Prioux -- - Moving beyond elaborate description : towards understanding choice about parenthood - John Hobcraft -- - Partnership and fertility : an incomplete revolution? - David Coleman -- - vol. 2 - Fertility and partnership in Europe : the role of country-specific institutions and policies - Erik Klijzing and Martine Corijn -- - pt. 1. Partnership and fertility behaviour - Household and union formation in a Mediterranean fashion : Italy and Spain - Francesco C. Billari, [et al.] -- - The impact of union formation dynamics on first births in West Germany and Italy : are there signs of convergence? - Francesco C. Billari and Hans-Peter Kohler -- - Family policies, work arrangements and the third child in France and Sweden - Diana Corman --
- Disruption of the first "parental union" in Sweden and Hungary, focusing on policy and gender effects - Livia Sz. Oláh -- - Childbearing in stepfamilies : how parity matters - Elizabeth Thomson, [et al.] -- pt. 2. Fertility expectations and behaviour - Free to choose, but unable to stick to it? - Turid Noack and Lars Østby -- - Desired and achieved fertility - Christine Van Peer -- pt. 3. Data quality issues - Data quality issues in comparative fertility and family surveys - Andrej Kveder -- - Comparing the 1988 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) with retrospective information from educational histories - Edith Dourleijn, Aart C. Liefbroer and Gijs C.N. Beets -- pt. 4. Innovative approaches to family research - Toward a child-centered life course perspective on family structures : multi-state early life tables - Patrick Heuveline and Jeffrey M. Timberlake --