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| Are young Europeans less likely to live with a partner as their educational attainment level increases? | |
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English |
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http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/pdf/2003-09.pdf
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Abstract
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This paper explores the relationship between educational attainment and partnership status for the European Union Countries during the period 1994-99 for young people aged 17-35 years. The source of data is the European Community Household Panel. Partnership status is coded 1 if a person is living with a couple and 0 otherwise. As the dependent variable is dichotomous, we fit a logistic regression model in which being in a partnership depends on age (taken as continuous variable with two factors, age and its square), sex and educational attainment. Covariance for sex and age is controlled. Categories for education are 'up to 1st secondary', 'completed secondary education' and 'university'. Finally, we fit the model for young people working full-time, in order to analyse the behaviour of this specific population. The coefficients for the explanatory variables show the odds ratio of being in a partnership regarding to the reference category for each variable. In the first step of the model, taking age and sex as independent variables, coefficients for each country show the nets effects of the variable 'country of residence' in the model. Nevertheless, once education is incorporated to the model, the interaction with sex and country has to be taking into account, as it is not possible to get the independent net effects for age, sex and country of residence. |
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Reference
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Miret-Gamundi, Pau (2003 Mar.) 'Are young Europeans less likely to live with a partner as their educational attainment level increases?', ISER WORKING PAPERS, 2003-9. Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research: University of Essex. |
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Authors
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Pau Miret-Gamundi |
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Countries included
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Unknown |
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Institutions Involved
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Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
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