Marital status behaviour of women in the former Soviet Republics

Darsky, L. & Scherbov, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0881-1073 (1995). Marital status behaviour of women in the former Soviet Republics. European Journal of Population 11 (1) 31-62. 10.1007/BF01264104.

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Abstract

This paper uses the most recent data and life table analysis to describe the marital behaviour of women in the republics of the former USSR. For the first time a multistate life table analysis was used to describe the marital careers of women from all the 15 republics. In the near future, such a comparative analysis will no longer be possible due to the unavailability of statistical data, especially in some of the Asian states.

The analysis shows that despite 70 years of influence by Soviet ideology and lifestyle, the institution of marriage was little subject to rapid change, and retained its traditions for each culture and its ethnic features.

Marriage was a universal institution in the former USSR. The majority of the women in all of the former republics entered marriage at least once. The mean age at first marriage varies from 20.5 in Moldavia to 22.8 in Azerbaijan. The proportion of marriages that end in divorce differs from 16% in Georgia to 41% in Latvia. On average more than 30% of divorced women remarry in Latvia and Ukraine and less than 5% in Georgia.

Item Type:	Article
Research Programs:	World Population (POP)
Bibliographic Reference:	European Journal of Population; 11(1):31-62 (March 1995)
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 02:05
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:15
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/4266

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