这项研究调查了1974年至1990年在英格兰和威尔士出生的年轻人的伙伴关系转变。这些群体受到高等教育扩张的影响,提高性别平等,和观念的变化,但面临经济和住房危机导致的经济不稳定。鉴于这些变化,很可能是年轻人的伙伴关系经历,包括婚姻,同居,分离,合作关系也发生了相当大的变化。我们将竞争风险事件历史分析应用于英国家庭小组调查和英国家庭纵向研究的综合数据,以确定出生队列性别,社会经济背景,和教育程度影响伙伴关系的变化。我们研究了16岁至27岁之间首次同居和结婚以及伴侣关系的过渡。同居已成为20世纪70年代末和80年代末出生的年轻人的普遍首次结合形式,无论他们的社会经济背景或教育水平如何,但是他们的第一次工会不会持续很长时间。虽然同居者在最古老的群体(1974-1979年)中同样有可能结婚或分居,同居工会很可能以两个最年轻的同伙(1980-1984和1985-1990)的分离而告终。因此,合作已经变得很普遍;最年轻的队列中的人很快就会重新成为合作伙伴,这表明越来越多的人经历了多种合作伙伴关系。在所有队列中,受过高等教育的年轻人的首次同居率都高于受教育程度较低的年轻人。然而,我们没有发现不同社会经济背景和教育水平的同居结局存在差异,这表明主要变化发生在出生队列中.结果还表明,青年男女之间的伙伴关系经验趋同。滑入和脱离同居的患病率增加,可能表明年轻人对第一伴侣关系的含义发生了重大变化。
This study investigates partnership transitions of young adults born between 1974 and 1990 in England and Wales. These cohorts were affected by the expansion of higher education, increasing gender equality, and ideational changes, but faced increased economic precarity caused by the economic and housing crisis. Given these changes, it is likely that the partnership experiences of young adults including marriage, cohabitation, separation, and repartnering have also undergone considerable changes. We apply competing risks event history analysis to combined data from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study to determine how birth cohort, gender, socio-economic background, and educational attainment influence partnership changes. We study the transition into and out of first cohabitation and marriage and repartnering between age 16 and 27. Cohabitation has become a universal form of first union among young adults born in the late 1970s and 1980s regardless of their socio-economic background or educational level, but their first unions do not last long. While cohabiters are equally likely to marry or separate in the oldest cohort (1974-1979), cohabiting unions are very likely to end in separation among the two youngest cohorts (1980-1984 and 1985-1990). Consequently, repartnering has become common; those in the youngest cohort repartner rather quickly suggesting that an increasing number of individuals experience multiple partnerships. Highly educated young adults have higher rates of entry into first cohabitation than their lower educated counterparts across all cohorts. However, we do not find differences in cohabitation outcomes by socio-economic background and educational level indicating that the main changes have taken place across birth cohorts. The results also suggest that there is a convergence in partnership experiences among young men and women. The increased prevalence of sliding into and out of cohabitation could indicate significant changes in the meaning young people attach to first partnerships.