Transition to adulthood in China in 1982−2005: A structural view

Tian, Felicia F.

doi:10.4054/demres.2016.34.16

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“…This operation did not substantively alter the results of our analyses as premarital pregnancies and births are rare in China (Tian 2016;Yeung and Hu 2013). This can be affirmed empirically by the fact that the percentage of respondents whose marriage age is higher than the childbearing age in the CFPS 2010 is only around 2%.…”

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Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China

Hu¹,

Tian²

2018

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Section: Analytical Strategiessupporting

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Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China

Hu¹,

Tian²

2018

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“…Examples from HICs are Aassve, Billari, and Piccarreta (2007) on the UK; Oris and Ritschard (2014) on Belgium; Ravanera, Rajulton, and Burch (1998) on Canada; Robette (2010) on France; Salmela-Aro et al (2011) on Finland; Sironi, Barban, and Impicciatore (2015) on Italy and the United States; etc. Conversely, examples from LMICs are Goldberg (2013) on South Africa; Echarri Cánovas and Pérez Amador (2007) and Fussell (2005) on Mexico; Beguy et al (2011) on Kenya; Mensch et al (2014) on Malawi;and Tian (2016) on China. Second are cross-national comparative analyses focused on industrialized societies, such as Billari and Liefbroer (2010), Elzinga and Liefbroer (2007), Schwanitz (2017), andVan Winkle (2018) covering, respectively, 26, 19, eight, and14 countries and the institutional differences (e.g., welfare state regimes) prevailing.…”

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“…( 2011 ) on Kenya; Mensch et al. ( 2014 ) on Malawi; and Tian ( 2016 ) on China. Second are cross‐national comparative analyses focused on industrialized societies, such as Billari and Liefbroer ( 2010 ), Elzinga and Liefbroer ( 2007 ), Schwanitz ( 2017 ), and Van Winkle ( 2018 ) covering, respectively, 26, 19, eight, and 14 countries and the institutional differences (e.g., welfare state regimes) prevailing.…”

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A Sequence‐Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Pesando¹,

Barban²,

Sironi³

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Population & Development Rev

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This study investigates whether young people in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) have experienced processes of destandardization of the life course similar to those observed in high‐income societies. We provide two contributions to the relevant literature. First, we use data from 263 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 69 LMICs, offering the richest comparative account to date of women's transition to adulthood (TTA) patterns in the developing world. In so doing, we adopt sequence analysis and shift the focus from individual life‐course events—namely first sexual intercourse, first union, and first birth—to a visually appealing approach that allows us to describe interrelations among events. By focusing on the analysis of trajectories rather than the occurrence of single events, the study provides an in‐depth focus on the timing of events, time intervals between events, and how experiencing (or not) one event might have consequences for subsequent markers in the TTA in cross‐national comparative perspective. Second, we identify clusters of TTA and explore their changes across cohorts by region and household location of residence (rural vs. urban). We document significant differences by macro‐regions, yet relative stability across cohorts. We interpret the latter as suggestive of cultural specificities that make the TTA resistant to change and slow to converge across regions, if converging at all. Also, we find that much of the difference across cluster typologies ensues from variation related to when the transition begins (early vs. late), rather than from the duration between events, which tends to be uniformly quick across three out of four clusters.

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“…Young Chinese people have more personal freedom than ever, which gives them greater autonomy in their choice of pathways to adulthood (Strickland 2012), especially in urban areas. However, Tian (2016) observes that in rural areas, while there are now notable delays in school completion and entry into the labor force, only minor delays occur in marriage and parenthood. Hence, the pathway to adulthood in rural areas is still relatively structured and follows an orderly sequence.…”

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A potential new pattern of pathway to adulthood is emerging in China

Wang¹,

Zhao²

2021

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDExisting literature has found that the ways in which people transition to adulthood has changed substantially in most Western countries since the late 1960s, but few studies have investigated such changes in the Chinese context. OBJECTIVEThis study examines a new pattern in family and work-related roles during the transition to adulthood among Chinese youth born between 1930 and 1979. METHODSThe China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study conducted in 2014 provides life history data for consecutive years. Multichannel sequence analysis is applied to 19,002 respondents to identify the clusters of trajectories to adulthood. Multinomial logistic regression is used to estimate the likelihood of belonging to each of the clusters of pathways to adulthood. RESULTSWe identify a new pattern, characterized by growing diversity and delay, in the transition to adulthood, which was mainly reflected in the long studies and stable employment cluster in the domain of employment and the staying single longer cluster in the field of family life course. Males and urban residents were more likely to fall into the patterns characterized by high education, stable work, and late transition. Female and rural residents tended to fall into the categories characterized by low education, agricultural work, and early transition. CONCLUSIONSThe trajectories to adulthood exhibited by Chinese youth are policy-driven and nonautonomous and have been affected by government policies.

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Transition to adulthood in China in 1982−2005: A structural view

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China

Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China

A Sequence‐Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

A potential new pattern of pathway to adulthood is emerging in China

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