Recent fertility patterns of Finnish women by union status: A descriptive account

BACKGROUND Remarkably little is known about the significance of consensual unions for fertility. This is true everywhere, but the lacuna is more important in the Nordic countries where there is so much childbearing outside of marriage, mostly in consensual unions. The purpose of this paper is to hel...

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Main Authors: Marika Jalovaara, Jan M. Hoem, Cornelia Muresan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2013-02-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/14/