Trouwpatronen en de openheid van een samenleving. De samenhang tussen de opleidingsniveaus van (huwelijks) partners in Nederland tussen 1959 en 1977

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In "Beroepsmobiliteit tussen generaties in Nederland in 1954 en 1977" ([Professional Mobility between the Generations of 1954 and 1977 in the Netherlands], see abstract in this section), H. Ganzeboom & P. de Graaf have shown that occupational mobility was considerably larger in 1977 than in 1954. To examine the validity of this conclusion for the openness of Dutch society on the whole, another indicator, selective mating, is examined. Using Ganzeboom's & de Graaf's questionnaire data, the educational levels of spouses (N = 2,923) are analyzed for 1954, 1971, & 1977. If partners with the same or different levels of education are called homogamous & heterogamous, respectively, a loglinear analysis shows that: (1) heterogamy cannot be fully accounted for as "forced" by different educational structures; (2) structural & actual heterogamy were more pronounced in 1954 than in 1977; & (3) there was still some dependence between spouses' educational levels after 1971. 3 Tables, 21 References. Modified HA