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A subregional analysis of family change: The spatial diffusion of one‐parent families across Italian municipalities, 1991–2011

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: This paper documents the expansion of new family patterns in Italy by scrutinising the spatial diffusion of one-parent families across Italian municipalities for the period 1991-2011. We apply a hierarchical Bayesian model to the data of the last three Italian Population Censuses, acknowledging that variation cannot be broken down into temporal and spatial effects because space-time interaction is at the very heart of family changes. Our results illustrate substantial subregional and sub-provincial heterogeneities in the spatial organisation of family systems, patterns that might have gone undetected had larger territorial units of analysis been considered. In addition, we show that especially socio-economic factors were associated to the diffusion of new family forms. This paper challenges international scholarship that caricatures Italy as a monolithic, homogeneous family-oriented country.

Source: Population Space and Place

DOI: 10.1002/psp.2237

Authors: Marcantonio Caltabiano, Emanuela Dreassi, Emilia Rocco, Daniele Vignoli

Institutions: University of Messina, University of Florence

Language: English

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,700

Funder: H2020 European Research Council