A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure from Census and Survey Data

Autor/inn/en	Bignami-Van Assche, Simona; Boulet, Virginie; Simard, Charles-Olivier
Titel	A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure from Census and Survey Data
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 52 (2023) 2, S.587-605 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bignami-Van Assche, Simona)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124120986192
Schlagwörter	Family Structure; Census Figures; Surveys; Indigenous Populations; Foreign Countries; Family (Sociological Unit); Research Methodology; Data Analysis; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Volkszählung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Sinti und Roma; Ausland; Familie; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Auswertung; Kanada
Abstract	How household-level data from censuses and surveys are analyzed to study household structure is an issue that has received little attention. The present study proposes a new methodological approach to address this gap. Specifically, we introduce the idea of the household configuration as a mathematical representation of observations from the household roster that uses the tools of sequence analysis to study relationships between household members. This "household configuration approach" is statistically efficient, captures the heterogeneity of family forms in a population, and is computationally simple. An application to Canadian census data for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples shows that our approach can yield interesting insights into household structure, otherwise not readily obtained. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01