Practice question · Select all that apply
Which changes belong to the second demographic transition as Lesthaeghe and van de Kaa described it?
Hints
- Three of these concern partnership and fertility after the first transition has completed; one concerns mortality.
- The first transition dealt with deaths; the second is about what happened next.
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- A. Fertility settling durably below replacement rather than at it
- B. Marriage occurring later and becoming less universal
- D. A rise in cohabitation and in births outside marriage
Why
The second transition is defined against the endpoint the first was supposed to reach: not low and stable fertility around replacement, but sustained sub-replacement fertility alongside a reorganisation of partnership. Mortality plays no part in it, which is the cleanest way to keep the two transitions apart.
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