Age at First Marriage in a Taiwanese Locality 1916-1945

In: Journal of family history: studies in family, kinship and demography, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 91-117

Abstract

Household and land registers from the Taiwanese village of Lungtu (Meinung Township) suggest that during the period 1916-1945 age at first marriage declined for men but rose slightly for women, and that women married earlier than other Taiwanese women but later than women elsewhere in south China. Variation in marriage age in Lungtu was related to mode of marriage, wealth, and productive capacity of the household, while structural characteristics of the household exerted only an ambiguous influence on marriage age.