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List of Tables

Table 2.1 Selected indicators 1970–2011 33
Table 2.2 Attitudes towards family life and gender roles
(percentage of agree and strongly agree) 39
Table 2.3 Cohort characteristics (percentage) 44
Table 2.4 Occupational trajectories (age 16–40) by country,
cohort and gender (percentage) 52
Table 3.1 Percentage and frequency of respondents who
mentioned different number of alters 68
Table 3.2 Percentage of respondents who cited at least one alter
in each tie category (N = 2774) 71
Table 3.3 Average proportion of male and female alters in
personal networks by country (N = 2774) 78
Table 3.4 Distribution of shaping factors across countries (percentage) 79
Table 3.5 Principal component analysis on the dimensions of
family-related attitudes (loadings) 80
Table 3.6 Influence of shaping factors on network size and
proportion of kin. Regression models, unstandardized
Beta coefficients 83
Table 3.7 Influence of shaping factors on the proportion of
co-resident alters and female alters. Regression models,
unstandardized Beta coefficients 85
Table 3.8 Influence of shaping factors on the proportion of very
recent and very old acquaintances. Regression models,
unstandardized Beta coefficients 87