HOUSING AND FAMILY TRAJECTORIES OF YOUNG ADULTS IN FIVE COUNTRIES: SWEDEN, GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY AND SERBIA - SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY DATA.

The aim of this paper is to analyse housing and family transitions among the young and young adults in five countries: Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and Serbia, representing the Social-democratic, Conservative, Liberal, Mediterranean and (SEE) Post-socialist models of welfare regimes. For the purposes of our analysis, we used round 9 of European Social Survey data. The focus of our analysis was on the rotating module “Timing of life” which aims to capture the views of European citizens about their life courses and their strategies to plan their own lives, as well as measures the timing of key life events. Variables from this module were used to construct life trajectories of respondents which are statistically modelled as sequences. Interpretation of the obtained results leads to two important conclusions. First, the differences in the types of family transitions of young people between countries are significant. Second, these differences can be explained both by individual characteristics and by the social and cultural context that determines the horizon of opportunities for young people. Even after controlling the effects of individual characteristics such as gender, age, education, parental education, religious affiliation, statistical differences between countries persist, indicating that a significant part of variability cannot be explained on an individual-level but exclusively by social and institutional context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cilj ovog članka je analiza stambenih i porodičnih tranzicija mladih i mladih odraslih u pet zemalja: Švedskoj, Nemačkoj, Velikoj Britaniji, Italiji i Srbiji, za koje smatramo da predstavljaju socijalno-demokratski, konzervativni, liberalni, mediteranski i post-socijalistički model režim države blagostanja. Za svrhu naše analize smo koristili podatke devetog ciklusa Evropskog društvenog istraživanja, i posebno rotirajućeg modula “Životne putanje” kojim je moguće prepoznati stavove i prakse Evropljana u odnosu na životni tok, kao i strategije kojima planiraju svoje živote. Varijable iz modula su korišćene da bi se rekonstruisale životne trajektorije ispitanika koje su statistički uobličene kao sekvence. Interpretacije dobijenih rezultata upućuju na dva značajna zaključka. Prvo, razlike između tipova porodičnih tranzicija mladih ljudi između analiziranih zemalja su značajne. Drugo, ove razlike mogu biti objašnjene kako individualnim karakteristikama, tako i društvenim i kulturnim kontekstom koji određuje horizont mogućnosti mladih. Čak i nakon kontrolisanja efekata individualnih karakteristika, poput pola, godina, obrazovnog nivoa, obrazovanja roditelja, religijske pripadnosti, statističke razlike između zemalja opstaju, upućujući na zaključak da značajan deo varijabiliteta ne može biti objašnjen individualnim osobinama ispitanika, već isključivo društvenim i institucionalnim kontekstom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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