Diversificación de las estructuras familiares: Caracterización de las convivencias en Chile

Abstract

As part of the debate about different types of families in modern societies, this article aims to describe relationships through the analysis of survey data from Casen 2006, which is the latest and most comprehensive source that can inquire into this aspect at the national level. In general, in recent years it is possible to establish an increase of “premarital relations” at the expense of formal unions and an extension of such form of union in other social groups to the traditionally observed –impoverished sectors–. Furthermore, the research explores how socio-demographic variables (age, years of schooling, quintile, urban or rural area and activity status) affect the probability of establishing premarital relationships on a sex-differentiated way.