The Domicile Difference of Marital Distribution for Total Population in Taiwan Area in 1990

• Main Authors: Weng, Chih-Yuan, 翁志遠
• Other Authors: Chen, Hsinmu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88293516525097954135

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會學系 === 87 === The purpose of this study is to explore the domicile difference-between Mainlanders and Taiwanese（except the Aborigines）-of distribution of marital status for total dwellers older than 15 in Taiwan Area. We argue that, dominated by somewhat disadvantageous population conditions（e.g. unbalanced sex ratio）, one who experienced his own unique life course（like migration event） must belong to some kind of marital status at a certain time according to his other characteristics such as domicile, sex, age and education, which will add up to an abnormal collective distribution pattern of marital status for the total population. Accordingly, this study is conducted by employing the 1990 census in Taiwan Area. Results suggest that, compared with female Mainlanders and all Taiwanese of the same cohort, the never-married and the divorced are significantly over-represented in the first-generation male Mainlanders who was older than 55 in 1990. We conclude that it is his socioeconomic status but not his domicile that determines whether the first-generation male Mainlander is never-married, married or unmarried in his late years. In other words, we believe that among the first-generation male Mainlanders does exist severe marriage stratification to some degree.