You have full access to this open access chapter. The availability of the micro data in the IPUMS samples for several censuses spanning a period of 40 years permits a detailed study of differentials and trends in cohabitation in Brazil than has hitherto been the case. During the last 40 years cohabitation has dramatically increased in all strata of the Brazilian population, and it has spread geographically to all areas in tandem with further expansions in the regions that had historically higher levels to start with.
Moreover, the probability of cohabiting depends not only on individual-level characteristics but also on additional contextual effects operating at the level of meso-regions. You have full access to this open access chapter, Download chapter PDF. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
As in North America and Europe, equally major demographic transitions have taken place in many Latin American countries during the last four decades. Brazil is no exception. These have all been very steady trends that have persisted through difficult economic times e. There is furthermore evidence from the World Values Studies in Brazil that the country has also been experiencing an ethical transition in tandem with its overall educational development, pointing at the de-stigmatization of divorce, abortion, and especially of euthanasia and homosexuality Esteve et al.
In what follows, we shall solely focus on the rapid spread of unmarried cohabitation as one of the key SDT ingredients. In doing so, we must be aware of the fact that Brazil has always contained several ethnic sub-populations that have maintained a tradition of unmarried cohabitation.
By , these were definitely minorities, and Brazil then ranked among the Latin American countries with the lower levels of cohabitation cf. Esteve et al. In much of the work that follows, we shall concentrate on women in the age group 25β At that age virtually all women have finished their education and they have also chosen from a number of options concerning the type of partnership, the transition into parenthood, and employment. Furthermore, the analysis is also restricted to women who are in a union i.
