Tsui A O
Demography. 1982 Feb;19(1):1-27.
The family formation process is viewed as the progression of women through first marriage, first, subsequent, and last births and is examined for differential patterns of timing in 1930-1969 marriage cohorts. Based on the childbearing histories of approximately 17,000 white women once and still married, extracted from the June 1975 Current Population Survey, the study uses a dynamic model to show the varying importance across cohorts of the first birth interval as an important indicator of the total time spent in childbearing, social background effects in differentiating the timing of the first two births, and of prior birth transitions as affecting subsequent ones.
家庭形成过程被视为女性从初婚开始，经历首次生育、后续生育直至最后生育的过程，并针对1930 - 1969年结婚队列的不同时间模式进行了研究。该研究基于1975年6月《当前人口调查》中提取的约17,000名曾经结婚且仍处于婚姻状态的白人女性的生育史，采用动态模型来展示不同队列中首次生育间隔作为生育总时长重要指标的不同重要性、区分前两胎生育时间的社会背景效应，以及先前生育转变对后续生育的影响。
