De-standardization of Family-Life Trajectories of Young Adults: A Cross-National Comparison Using Sequence Analysis

By Cees H. Elzinga, A. Liefbroer. 2007

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We introduce a number of new methods based on sequence analysis to test hypotheses on the de-standardization of family-life trajectories in early adulthood, using Fertility and Family Survey data on 19 countries. Across cohorts, family-life trajectories of young adults have not become more turbulent. However, in most countries family-life trajectories of young adults have become less similar to one another and the variation in the types of family-trajectories has increased. Contrary to expectations, no clear differences in de-standardization were observed between countries characterized by a social-democratic welfare-state regime and countries characterized by either liberal or conservative welfare-state regimes.RésuméNous introduisons une variété de nouvelles méthodes basées sur l’analyse séquentielle pour tester des hypothèses sur la dé-standardisation des trajectoires de vie familiale au début de l’âge adulte, en utilisant les données de l’enquête Fécondité et Famille dans 19 pays. D’une génération à l’autre, les trajectoires de vie familiale des jeunes adultes ne sont pas devenues plus “turbulentes”. Toutefois, dans la-plupart des pays, ces trajectoires sont devenues de plus en plus dissemblables et diversifiées. A l’opposé des attentes, aucune différence claire en matière de dé-standardisation n’apparaît entre les pays caractérisés par un système de protection sociale et de retraite de type social-démocrate et ceux caractérisés par un système de type libéral ou conservateur.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Complexity of Categorical Time Series (2010, methodology): “Hence, it is interesting to describe an efficient algorithm that counts distinct subsequences and that is fundamental to the method already proposed by Elzinga and Liefbroer (2007).”
De-standardization and gender convergence in work–family life courses in Great Britain: A multi-channel sequence analysis (2015, methodology): “Studies of parenthood and partnership fairly consistently suggest increasing between-person diversity across cohorts (Elzinga & Liefbroer, 2007), at least before the age of 30 (Widmer & Ritschard, 2009).”
The De-Standardization of the Life Course: Are Men and Women Equal? (2009, background): “…of de- standardiza- tion of occupational and family trajectories can only be achieved through a fine - tuned investigation of observed trajectories using statistical approaches that are sensitive to variance issues in a longitudinal perspective ( Billari , 2001 ; Elzinga & Liefbroer , 2007 ) .”
Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR (2011, unknown): “We obtain another simple distance measure by using the length A P ( x, y ) of the longest common preﬁx (LCP) between two sequences; i.e., by counting the number of successive common positions starting from the beginning of the sequences 11 (see for instance Elzinga 2007b).”