Sánchez J J
Popul Stud (Camb). 1998 Mar;52(1):105-15. doi: 10.1080/0032472031000150206.
In this article we analyse the influence of age at marriage and percentage of definitive celibacy on marital and total fertility over the past two hundred years in the Spanish province of Navarre. A considerable percentage of the fall in marital fertility in the first half of the twentieth century in rural Navarre was due to the postponement in women's age at marriage. On the other hand, Navarre offers many exceptions to the scenario often endorsed by researchers that sees marriage as the prime mechanism for regulating reproduction in traditional societies. While in the northern part of the province this mechanism did bring about the reduction of total fertility, in the southern part the fall was primarily a consequence of a fall in marital fertility.
在本文中，我们分析了西班牙纳瓦拉省过去两百年间结婚年龄和终身未婚率对婚姻生育率和总生育率的影响。20世纪上半叶，纳瓦拉农村地区婚姻生育率下降的很大一部分原因是女性结婚年龄的推迟。另一方面，对于研究人员常认可的将婚姻视为传统社会调节生育的主要机制这一观点，纳瓦拉有许多例外情况。虽然在该省北部这一机制确实导致了总生育率的下降，但在南部，生育率下降主要是婚姻生育率下降的结果。
