Using 254 Demographic and Health Surveys from 75 low- and middle-income countries, this study shows how the joint examination of family characteristics across rural and urban areas provides new insights for understanding global family change. We operationalise this approach by building family configurations: a set of interrelated features that describe different patterns of family formation and structure. These features include partnership (marriage/unions) regimes and their stability, gender relations, household composition and reproduction. Factorial and clustering techniques allow us to summarise these family features into three factorial axes and six discrete family configurations. We provide an in-depth description of these configurations, their spatial distribution and their changes over time. Global family change is uneven because it emerges from complex interplays between the relative steadiness of longstanding arrangements for forming families and organising gender relations, and the rapidly changing dynamics observed in the realms of fertility, contraception, and timing of family formation.

中文翻译：

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从低收入和中等收入国家家庭结构的角度看家庭的变化和变化


这项研究利用来自 75 个低收入和中等收入国家的 254 项人口和健康调查，展示了对农村和城市地区家庭特征的联合检查如何为理解全球家庭变化提供新的见解。我们通过构建家庭配置来实施这种方法：一组描述家庭形成和结构的不同模式的相互关联的特征。这些特征包括伙伴关系（婚姻/工会）制度及其稳定性、性别关系、家庭构成和生育。阶乘和聚类技术使我们能够将这些族特征总结为三个阶乘轴和六个离散族配置。我们对这些配置、它们的空间分布及其随时间的变化进行了深入的描述。全球家庭变化是不平衡的，因为它是由形成家庭和组织性别关系的长期安排的相对稳定性与在生育、避孕和家庭形成时间领域观察到的快速变化的动态之间复杂的相互作用产生的。