Development of marriage and family relationships in the northern regions of Russia

Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast

Larisa Alekseevna Popova¹  Anastasiya Spiridonovna Barashkova² 

[1] Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director for Science, Institute for Socio-Economic and Energy Problems of the North, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences;Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Associate, Scientific-Research Institute of Regional Economy of the North, North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk;

关键词: Northern regions;    population reproduction;    marriage and family relations;    level and structure of nuptiality;    demographic policy;   

DOI  :  10.15838/esc/2014.4.34.11

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article deals with the mechanism of modern demographic development in Russia’s northern regions. The article studies the dynamics of marriage processes in the North in the post-war period, and reveals the current specifics of marriage and family relations. The authors analyze in more detail the situation in the two big northern republics: the Komi Republic and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). They identify factors that determined a significant decrease of marriage rate in the 1990s and the relative normalization of marital and family processes in recent years. The article outlines the main directions of demographic policies in the northern regions

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