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La unión libre ha formado parte de los sistemas nupciales de América Latina desde tiempos coloniales aunque su práctica ha estado históricamente más extendida en unas regiones que en otras. La mayoría de trabajos que aportan datos sobre las características de este tipo de unión en América Latina lo hacen a escala nacional y son pocos los que han abordado esta cuestión a una escala más detallada. Este estudio moviliza más de 550 millones de registros individuales procedentes de los últimos datos censales publicados de 38 países de América Latina y el Caribe (2001-2012). En total se analizan los datos correspondientes a 17.000 unidades administrativas. El trabajo hace uso intensivo de los sistemas de información geográfica para gestionar la información, examinar la consistencia de los indicadores en áreas pequeñas, e identificar las áreas de influencia territorial de la unión libre y examinar la homogeneidad interna de los países., Cohabitation has been part of the Latin American union formation system since colonial times. However, this type of union has been historically more extended in some areas than others. Most of the studies that have analyzed the characteristics of this type of union in Latin America use the national scale as a territorial unit of observation, and there are few that have studied this phenomenon from a more detailed approach. This paper compiles more than 550 million of person records from the latest population censuses released (2001-2012) corresponding to about 17,000 local entities of 38 countries. The study relies on Geographic Information Systems to manage the information, to examine the consistency of the local indicators used and to identify areas of territorial influence of cohabitation and the internal homogeneity of the countries.

This chapter analyses the increase in cohabitation in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) and attempts to determine the extent to which consensual unions and marriages have similar traits or differ in the context of the cohabitation boom (Esteve et al. 2012). The first section of the chapter reviews the historical context of cohabitation in the Southern Cone. The second section uses census and survey data to analyse the trends in conjugal union formation in the three countries during the last 40 years. We analyse the patterns of both childbearing and union formation, as well as the differences between marriage and cohabitation based on educational attainment, labour market participation and household structure. The purpose of this analysis is to better understand whether the behaviour of married and cohabiting women with different characteristics are converging or diverging over time and tentatively, whether more egalitarian gender relationships are emerging in both types of conjugal unions. Fil: Binstock, Georgina. Centro de Estudios de Población; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Cabella Vaz, Wanda. Universidad de la República; Uruguay Fil: Salinas, Viviana. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile Fil: López Colás, Julián. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; España

The goal of this dissertation was to examine several aspects of the demographic and social change in Israel within the conceptual frameworks of the second demographic transition theory and emancipation theory. Attitude and value change along with the changes in marriage and fertility behaviour in Israel in the last decades were the main object of study. It was argued that focusing on a single case study is beneficial for analyzing the underlying mechanisms and studying the transition as an integrated process, which is interconnected with broader cultural and economic changes. Such in-depth inquiry reveals the issues at stake from the individual point of view, which are often missing in many studies of demographic changes. It also discloses information about the contextual, path-dependent and historical factors that might hamper the onset and slow the further progression of the demographic transition in Israel.