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Patterns of Age Variability in Life Course Transitions
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The analysis of interquartile ranges obtained through life tables shows that school completion, and for women, start of regular work have become more age-homogeneous. as mentioned in this paper examined age variability in life course transitions using retrospective data collected through the 1995 Canadian General Social Survey on the Family.Abstract:
This study examines age variability in life course transitions using retrospective data collected through the 1995 Canadian General Social Survey on the Family. The analysis of interquartile ranges obtained through life tables shows that school completion, and for women, start of regular work have become more age-homogenous. For family events such as home-leaving, first union, first marriage, and first and last birth there was a move towards narrower age ranges in which major events are experienced up to the cohort born in the first half of the 1940s, or in terms of period, up to around 1970s. Subsequently, from cohorts born in 1946 and later, age ranges started to widen. Resume: A base de l'Enquete sociale generale de 1995, nous examinons la variation selon l'âge dans les transitions de la vie. Selon les tableaux du type esperance de vie, la terminaison de l'education, et pour les femmes le commencement du travail reguler, sont devenu plus homogene selon l'âge. Pour les cohortes nes jusqu'au debut des annees 1940, ou les periodes jusqu'environ 1970, on a egalement vu un retrecissement des differences dans le depart du foyer, la premiere union, premier mariage, ainsi que la premiere et derniere naissances. Depuis, c'est a dire pour les cohortes nees apres 1945, il se produit un accroissement des variations selon l'âge.read more
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