Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies)

✍ Scribed by Wei-Jun Jean Yeung

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 119
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background to facilitate an understanding of the changes that families in Southeast Asia have been going through.

The book is structured into two parts. Part A includes three segments preceded by a briefing on Southeast Asia. The first segment focuses on marital and partnership status in the region, particularly marriage rates, age at marriage, incidence of singlehood, cohabitation, and divorce. The second segment focuses on fertility indicators such as fertility rates (total, age-specific, adolescent), age at childbearing, and childlessness. The third presents information on household structures in the region by examining household sizes, and incidence of one-person households, single-parent families, as well as extended and composite households. Part B presents indicators of children and youth’s well-being.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
List of Figures
Part I Population, Marriage, Fertility and Household Structures
1 Introduction
1.1 Background for Family Transition in Southeast Asia
1.2 Explaining Global Family Changes
1.2.1 Historical Context
1.2.2 Kinship Patterns
1.2.3 Cultural Diversity
1.3 Changes in Southeast Asian Families
1.3.1 Changing Marriage Patterns
1.3.2 Fertility Trends
1.3.3 Living Arrangements
1.4 Socio-economic Contexts and Transformation
1.5 Highlights of the Trends and Patterns
1.5.1 Population
1.5.2 Socio-economic Development
1.5.3 Union Formation and Dissolution
1.5.4 Childbearing
1.5.5 Household Structure
1.5.6 Education
1.5.7 Youth Unemployment
1.5.8 Child Health
References
2 Trends in Population and Socioeconomic Development in Southeast Asia
2.1 Population Structure of Southeast Asia
2.2 Population Density
2.3 Level of Economic Development
2.4 Education
2.5 Female Labour Force Participation
2.6 Gender Inequality Index (GII)
References
3 Marriage
3.1 Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM)
3.2 Singlehood
3.3 Divorce
3.4 Consensual Union
References
4 Fertility
4.1 Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
4.2 Mean Age at Childbearing (MAC)
4.3 Age-Specific Fertility Rates (ASFR)
4.4 Adolescent Fertility Rates
4.5 Childlessness
4.6 Ideal and Actual Fertility Rates
References
5 Household Structures
5.1 Average Household Size in Southeast Asia, 1980–2010
5.2 Household Types in Southeast Asia, 1970–2010
5.2.1 Nuclear Households with Children
5.2.2 Number of Nuclear Households Without Children Are Rising
5.2.3 No Clear Trend for Extended Family Households
5.2.4 Decreasing Single-Parent Households
5.2.5 Drop in the Prevalence of Composite Households
5.2.6 Rising One-Person Households
5.3 Living Arrangements Among Older Adults in Southeast Asia
5.3.1 Living with Their Children or Spouse
5.3.2 Rise in the Number of Independently Living Older Adults
References
Part II Child and Youth Well-Being
6 Education and Youth Unemployment in Southeast Asia
6.1 Youth Literacy Rates
6.2 Expected Years in Full-Time Education
6.3 Rate of Out-Of-School Children of Primary School Age
6.4 Transition Rate from Primary to Lower Secondary Education
6.5 Gross Secondary Enrolment Ratio
6.6 Gender Parity Index (GPI) in Southeast Asia
6.6.1 GPI for Primary School Enrolment
6.6.2 GPI for Secondary School Enrolment
6.6.3 GPI for Tertiary School Enrolment
6.7 Gender Differences in University Graduates by Fields of Study
6.8 Population with at least Completed Upper Secondary Education
6.9 Population with at least Completed Tertiary Education
6.10 Youth Unemployment in Southeast Asia
References
7 Child Health in Southeast Asia
7.1 Low-Birthweight Babies
7.2 Prevalence of Overweight (% of Children Under 5)
7.3 Prevalence of Wasting (% of Children Under 5)
7.4 Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate
References
8 Conclusion
Reference