Determinants of Singlehood: a retrospective account by older single women in Lagos, Nigeria

Ntoimo, Lorretta; Isiugo-Abanihe, Uche C.

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“…However, we found that having higher education beyond high school increases the likelihood being never married among individuals aged 40-65. Having higher education may either provides more authority for individuals to exercise their decision to stay single permanently, or it may raise the expectations and requirements for desired partners (Dykstra and Poortman 2010, Ntoimo, Chizomam andIsiugo-Abanihe 2014, Silva 2000).…”

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Norms in Transition? The Relationship between Education and Singlehood

Setyonaluri

Maghfirah

Aryaputra

2020

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This article examines the role of education in the likelihood of being never married among older adults in Indonesia. Following the Multiple Equilibrium Framework, our paper argues that increasing education imposes a more common trend of singlehood since marriage continues to be a near universal norm in Indonesia. Previous research found that increase in education delays marriage, but few studies have paid attention to the role of education in the decision to stay single. We use Indonesia National Socio-Economic Survey or SUSENAS 2007 and 2017 - two datasets with ten years span - to see whether there has been a change in the effect of education on the probability of permanent singlehood among women and men aged 40-65. The result from the logistic regression confirms a U-shaped relationship between education and singleness propensity. Our key finding is that an additional year of schooling reduces the probability of being single up until senior secondary level, while having education beyond high school increases the probability of being single. Our result implies that traditional norm towards gender role remains strong in Indonesia. We also find that both highly educated women and men have similar likelihood to stay single in this setting.

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“…This result indicates that people who have birth earlier than their siblings are more likely to be single. It may happen because the first child have to provide financial support to their family and siblings (Ntoimo, Chizomam and Isiugo-Abanihe 2014). This obligation causes them to stay single and focus on their career.…”

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Norms in Transition? The Relationship between Education and Singlehood

Setyonaluri

Maghfirah

Aryaputra

2020

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“…Studies show that better education and participation in paid employment for women have changed the timing and nature of marriages in Indonesia. As women become more educated and financially independent, women have a higher autonomy of when and who to marry including the decision to stay single permanently, and increase requirements for partners (assortative mating), which increases the likelihood of being single (Dykstra & Poortman, 2009 ; Ntoimo & Isiugo-Abanihe, 2014 ). On average, educated women expect to marry men with the same or higher level of education (Malhotra 1997 ), with equal values of shared domestic work and childcare (Quah 1998 ).…”

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A second demographic transition in Indonesia?

Utomo

Ananta

Setyonaluri

et al. 2022

China popul. dev. stud.

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As a predominantly Muslim and ethnically diverse new democracy in Asia, Indonesia is a timely case to study how the contending forces of development and social change are reflected in changing norms and practices around family formation. This paper examines the extent to which the second demographic transition (SDT) theory can provide a primary framework to understand contemporary patterns of fertility, marriage and family change in Indonesia. Against the backdrop of socio-political change following Reformasi in 1998, we found emerging demographic features typically associated with societies in later stages of fertility transition. These include fertility below replacement in some regions; increasing age at first marriage, non-marriage, and divorce rates; and growing diversity in household/family forms. As the vast regions of Indonesia is economically, culturally, and demographically heterogeneous, these key features of SDT are not likely to emerge and unfold in a uniform manner. Further, these demographic shifts are taking place amidst multiple tensions and contradictions in the nature and direction of ideational change pertaining to marriage and the family. We argue that the prevailing ideational change driving the shifts in marriage, fertility, and the family within Indonesia is neither unilinear nor singular in nature. Emerging ideational change embodying individualism, secularism, and post-materialism—originally proposed in SDT theory to be the primary drivers of fertility decline in post-industrial Western Europe—can overlap with popular values promoting de-secularization and the strengthening of familial institutions. As a demographic framework, the SDT theory is an important and useful starting point. But it needs to be reevaluated by considering the complex socio-political and increasingly precarious economic terrains behind fertility transition, as well as marriage and family change in post-Reformasi Indonesia.

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“…However, singlehood among women is gaining serious attention among social workers, journalists and women activists. This is because the age at which women make their first nuptial bliss is becoming late (Morris, Sinclair, & DePaulo, 2007;Rozita & Zaharah, 2009;Sharp & Ganong, 2011;Wang & Abbott, 2013;Ntoimo & Isiugo-Abanihe, 2014;Indongo & Pazvakawambwa, 2015;Adewusi, 2017). For instance, more than 25% and 27% of black American women between 30 and 34 years old had never been married by 2000 and 2007, respectively, while 43.4% of them were yet to marry as at the first quarter of 2009 (King & Allen, 2009).…”

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“…Against this background, the article examines marriage pressures yet-to-marry women experience and the general perceptions on singlehood in Nigeria. In this article, women of concern are those that are 30 years of age and above (excluding religious celibates) but are not married, not cohabiting, and are childless (Isiugo-Abanihe, 2000;Rozita & Zaharah, 2009;Ntoimo & Isiugo-Abanihe, 2014).…”

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Marriage Pressures and Perception of Singlehood Among Yet-to-Marry Women in Ibadan Metropolis

Oyafunke-Omoniyi

Adewusi

2021

JHSSCA

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Despite the critical disapproval of singlehood in most African societies, Nigeria inclusive, it is most appalling that the age at which women make their first nuptial bliss is becoming late in recent times. Statistics have shown that the number of single women have doubled within a short space of time. The available chunk of studies have paid sufficient attention to the factors responsible for singlehood among older women. However, little studies have examined how different source marriage pressures influence how single women view themselves. Against this background, this article examines the sources of marriage pressures and how they influence the perception of singlehood among women in Nigeria. The study draws heavily on Marx Weber Social Action theory. A total of 24 yet-to-marry women selected through a multistage sampling technique were extensively interviewed. The study found that beside the direct marriage pressure from parents experienced by yet-to-marry women, they are also faced with indirect marriage pressure during gatherings with family, friends, and co-workers. The pressures sometimes translate to the women perceiving themselves as being judged, though most of them feel independent and free. They are of the opinion that they need to be careful in selecting a partner in order not to fall victim of a failed marriage despite having waited for long.

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Determinants of Singlehood: a retrospective account by older single women in Lagos, Nigeria

Abstract: Although the population of older never married women in Nigeria is

Cited by 24 publications

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Norms in Transition? The Relationship between Education and Singlehood

Norms in Transition? The Relationship between Education and Singlehood

A second demographic transition in Indonesia?

Marriage Pressures and Perception of Singlehood Among Yet-to-Marry Women in Ibadan Metropolis

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