Gabrielli Giuseppe, Hoem Jan M
Eur J Popul. 2010 Feb;26(1):33-46. doi: 10.1007/s10680-009-9193-y. Epub 2009 Nov 18.
Italy has long been regarded as the country with negligible non-marital cohabitation par excellence, but lately the pattern has begun to change and entry into consensual unions has increased strongly in younger Italian generations. This article is devoted to a study of such features between 1980 and 2003 based on the data from the Italian variant of the Gender and Generations Survey, Round 1. We consider entry into marriage and entry into cohabitation as competing risks and show how the incidence of cohabitation consistently much lower but has increased by some 70% over the 20-odd years of our study, while the marriage rate has dropped by almost as much. We find great variation across major regions of the country. The rise in cohabitation is confined to Northern and Central Italy, while the risk of marriage formation has declined strongly all over the country. Unlike previous investigations, our data suggest that non-marital cohabitation may be taking over whatever minor role civil marriage has had in Italian union formation.
长期以来，意大利一直被视为非婚同居现象微不足道的典型国家，但近来这种模式已开始改变，意大利年轻一代中自愿结合的情况大幅增加。本文基于《性别与世代调查》意大利版第一轮的数据，对1980年至2003年期间的此类特征进行了研究。我们将结婚和同居视为相互竞争的风险，并表明同居发生率一直低得多，但在我们研究的20多年里增加了约70%，而结婚率下降了几乎相同的幅度。我们发现该国主要地区存在很大差异。同居的增加仅限于意大利北部和中部，而全国各地形成婚姻的风险都大幅下降。与以往的调查不同，我们的数据表明，非婚同居可能正在取代民事婚姻在意大利结合形式中所起的任何微小作用。
