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Livets händelser i glesbygd och tätbygd: en livsbanestudie av ålderskohorten 1968-1971
Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sverige.
2011 (Swedish)Licentiate thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, from a life course perspective I´m going to study the timing of a number of life course events in sparsely populated areas and urban areas in a cohort of people born 1968-1971. The second part of the aim is to analyze how the timing of the life course events in a later stage of life affects the residential choice, with special focus on owning the dwelling, in the above mentioned geographical areas.

The life course events in focus are; leaving the parental home, the first cohabitation or the first marriage, the first childbearing and the first separation or divorce.

The results state that there are significant differences between sparsely populated and urban areas in the cohort, in timing for at least three out of the four life events. The difference in average age between sparsely populated and urban areas is biggest for leaving the parental home and for the first cohabitation or marriage with the rural individuals being the youngest. The same pattern is also visible for the first child but the difference in timing between the two geographical areas are less distinct for that event. For separations and divorces there are no clear differences in timing.

Linear regressions show that educational level is of crucial importance for the timing ofthe life events. An increasing level of education leads to a later life event. Different economic variables such as income support, unemployment allowance and disposable income also have an influence on the timing of the events. But the significance of the effect of these variables on the average age is stronger in the urban areas than in the sparsely populated districts. It seems that in sparsely populated areas there are other variables that play an essential role when it comes to the timing of the events in the life course. One possible aspect, but not investigated here, could be the impact of the wider family context.

Finally, a control for how the different timing of the life events in the two geographical contexts affects the residential choice at least ten years after the events has been done. It shows that the general pattern concerning the residential choice of the cohort is that 90 percent in sparsely populated areas and 70 percent in the urban areas defined as suburbs lives in owned villas. It seems that, in this cohort, house owning is an overrepresented way of residence regardless the individuals geographical identity.

The results also shows that people in the cohort, regardless if and when the four life events has taken place in the younger ages, to a large extent in the later life still lives in the same type of municipality (sparsely populated or urban). In other words, it is not possible to find any strong correlations between the timing of the life events and residential choice in a later stage of life.

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Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2011. , p. 96
Keywords [sv]
Livsbana, livsbaneperspektiv, glesbygd, storstad, tätbygd, flytta hemifrån, gifta sig, samboende, barnafödande, skilsmässa, separation, bostadsmarknad
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Human Geography
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Social and Economic Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-133088ISBN: 978-91-506-2203-4 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-133088DiVA, id: diva2:1086052
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Available from: 2023-02-27 Created: 2017-03-31 Last updated: 2023-02-27Bibliographically approved

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