Attitudes towards Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada

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ID3003716
AuthorsZheng Wu (0000-0002-9251-621X, Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Cananda), T R Balakrishnan (0000-0002-2319-8692, Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Cananda)
Year1992
Volume23
Issue1
Pages1-12
Publication date1992-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.23.1.1
OpenAlexW20600119
LanguageEN
Citations received11

An analysis of a national sample of Canadian women in the Canadian National Fertility Survey (1984) indicate that attitudes towards cohabitation and marriage are associated with their demographic, socioeconomic and cultural background. Eight attitudinal variables in the survey are used to construct the scales for the attitudes in a confirmatory factor analysis. Women who are in older ages, currently married, living in rural areas, with lower educational attainment, non-Catholic, having a higher frequency of church attendance and a higher desired number of children are found to be more conservative in their attitudes towards cohabitation and marriage. The study also finds that Quebec women tend to be more liberal than non-Quebec women

Attendance · Church attendance · Cohabitation · Confirmatory factor analysis · Construct (python library) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Marital status · National Survey of Family Growth · Population · Religiosity · Research methodology · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Structural equation modeling · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology

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