Yang Q
Department of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra.
J Biosoc Sci. 1990 Apr;22(2):143-57. doi: 10.1017/s0021932000018496.
This paper examines the changing nuptiality pattern of rural China, particularly rural Anhui in relation to the planned social changes since 1949 and their effect on fertility. The data are from the 1/1000 Fertility Survey of China, conducted by the Family Planning Commission in 1982. Before the family planning programme was introduced to rural Anhui (1972), the changing nuptiality pattern was indirectly affected by the planned social changes; after 1972, the substantial increase in age at first marriage was mainly due to the family planning programme. More recently, the centrally controlled social structure is loosening, due to the economic reform and the nuptiality pattern seems to join the 1972 trend, suggesting that the dramatic change of nuptiality pattern during the early 1970s to early 1980s was a temporary one. But its effect on fertility is clear, and the shortening interval between marriage and first birth may bring difficulties for future population control in rural China.
本文考察了中国农村尤其是安徽农村自1949年以来与计划中的社会变革相关的婚姻模式变化及其对生育的影响。数据来自计划生育委员会1982年进行的中国千分之一生育率调查。在计划生育项目引入安徽农村（1972年）之前，婚姻模式的变化受到计划中的社会变革的间接影响；1972年之后，初婚年龄的大幅上升主要归因于计划生育项目。最近，由于经济改革，中央控制的社会结构正在松动，婚姻模式似乎又回到了1972年的趋势，这表明20世纪70年代初至80年代初婚姻模式的急剧变化是暂时的。但其对生育的影响是明显的，结婚与首次生育之间间隔的缩短可能给中国农村未来的人口控制带来困难。
