household formation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhouseholdandformation
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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formation
noun
uk/fɔːˈmeɪ.ʃən/us/fɔːrˈmeɪ.ʃən/
the way something is naturally made or the way it has ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdandformationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This article therefore identifies the need for further research, qualitative and quantitative, on the relationship between women's employment patterns and the dynamics ofhouseholdformation.
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Specifically, we compare headship succession andhouseholdformationrules among these three populations between 1789 and 1909.
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The available sources allow us to distinguish ' permanent inhabitants ' from ' pastoralists ', and to identify their distinctive patterns ofhouseholdformation.
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The joint-familyhouseholdformationsystem is generally supposed to have been part of a larger household-oriented economic system.
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In a detailed set of instructions from the year 1796, he devoted four separate points to questions of marriage andhouseholdformation.
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These seismic changes inhouseholdformationand marriage practices found vivid expression in medieval religion and culture.
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These figures are still consistent with the features of a joint-familyhouseholdformationsystem.
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My article also gives an overview of studies on nuptiality andhouseholdformationthat are based on the analysis of village population registers.
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The property cycle was basically governed by the rate ofhouseholdformation, itself re-ecting changes in net immigration and the incidence of marriage.
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This results in more complex patterns ofhouseholdformation, with related changes in understandings about obligations to older people in families of orientation.
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This is further complicated by the nature ofhouseholdformation.
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Further research has shown that these regional subdivisions were still too broad and concealed a mosaic of localhouseholdformationsystems.
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Householdformationcannot be understood without reference to the social, economic, cultural, and geographic context.
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Should the departure of those married brothers be interpreted as a ' splitting ' (or a ' fission ') of the household in line with the rules of jointhouseholdformation?
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This form of privatisation assumes the existence of a stable nuclear family as the norm ofhouseholdformation, and the persistence of a gendered division of domestic/caring labour.
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