Factors Affecting Entering Into Marriage Of East Asian Women: A Comparative Study

• Main Authors: Huang, Huey-Jiun, 黃惠君
• Other Authors: Yang, Wen-Shan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99118703329926948073

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 100 === The average age at first marriage of women in East Asian soceities has obviously risen since the past several decades. The purpose of this study is to explore average age at first marriage and determinants of first marriage of East Asian women in Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan. The 2006 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) is combined with the family module of the East Asia Social Survey (EASS) dataset from China, Korea and Japan and used to analyze the determinants of age at first marriage of East Asian women. An Event History Analysis statistical model is developed to analyze women born between 1945 and 1989. In the analyses, I controlled birth cohort, sibling configuration, and residence of respondent before the age of 15, number of siblings, father’s education, respondent’s sex-role attitude, filial piety, attitudes toward parental support, family value and marriage attitude toward sharing household chores as determinants to entering marriage. A life table analysis shows that the risk of first marriage of Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan women between age 20 to 24 is from 0.08% to 5.15%; from age 25 to 32, the risk of first marriage rises to 20.34%-27.11%. However, there are approximately 1.7% of women who remain single until 51 year old. The analysis indicates that Chinese women tend to marry in early age compared to women in other societies; nevertheless, Taiwan women, over all, are among the group that married the latest. According to birth cohort, the average age of first marriage of women born before 1964 is earlier compared to those born after 1965. Women with higher education above college level tend to marry late as compared to women of lower education stratum. The analysis of Discrete-time Logistic Regression model reveals that women with higher education, especially when it is above college level, tend to marry late as well as those who have an egalitarian sex-role attitude, show filial piety toward elderly parents and desire for husbands have an equal share of household chores.