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What Predicts Egalitarian Attitudes Towards Marriage and Children: Evidence from the European Values Study

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This paper explores the correlates of attitudes toward marriage and children in North Cyprus, South Cyprus, Turkey and Greece, using the most recent wave of the European Values Study (EVS) data. The results show the most support for the second demographic transition theory. The combined effects of education, religiosity, political ideology and gender ideology explain the most variance in family values among these four countries. Less religiosity and egalitarian gender ideology are correlated with egalitarian attitudes towards marriage and children throughout, but cross-country differences are also significant. The effects of parenthood, marital status, education, and political ideology are in the expected direction, yet the effects are not universal but country-specific.

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These variables are compiled from EUROSTAT http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/ and the WORLD FACTBOOK https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/.

The macro data for Northern Cyprus is obtained from the State Planning Organization (http://www.devplan.org/) since EUROSTAT and the WORLD FACTBOOK do not have this information. The percentage of females that are employed and work part-time in Northern Cyprus, however, is not available on this website either.

The European Values Study and World Values Surveys series were both designed to enable a cross-national, cross-cultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics, and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. To monitor cultural changes, the World Values Survey was launched, designed to be carried out globally but focus on countries outside Western Europe. Coherent patterns of change between EVS and WVS were observed from 1981 to 1990, with a wide range of key values. To monitor these changes and probe more deeply into their causes and consequences, both datasets grew larger with additional waves of data. After the first two waves of data collection for WVS, the research group agreed to carry out two additional waves, in 1995 and 2000. These waves were designed to obtain better coverage of non-Western societies and analyze the development of a democratic political culture in the emerging Third Wave democracies. The fifth and last available wave of data collection for WVS is the 2005 survey. The EVS and WVS survey questions are almost identical, and three of the four countries of interest in this study (North Cyprus, South Cyprus, and Turkey) show similar attitudes towards marriage and children in EVS (2008 survey) and WVS (2005 survey) data. WVS, however, includes Greece only in the fourth wave of data collection (2000 survey). Therefore, as expected, the Greek WVS data shows more traditional attitudes towards marriage and children compared to the Greek EVS data reported in the present study.

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Title: What Predicts Egalitarian Attitudes Towards Marriage and Children: Evidence from the European Values Study
Publication date: 01-01-2015
Published in: Social Indicators Research / Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0580-3

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