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The CIS publishes Opinions and Attitudes No. 80: 'The entry into adult life of men and women across generations in Spain (1920-2000)'
Madrid, 25 October 2023
Madrid, October 24, 2023
This book presents the results of the analysis of the data collected in the survey module carried out by the CIS with the title Biographies of Emancipation, Generations and Social Change in Spain.
This module was designed to collect retrospective information with the aim of studying life trajectories in youth, starting from the generations of men and women aged 18 and over, placing special interest in the emancipation process. All this, in a context of limited generational data on youth and their emancipation processes.
Emancipation has been considered in this study as a sum of processes that involve different dimensions, among which the departure or departures from the parental home are one more event within a complex "path." The results obtained confirm empirical evidence found in other studies and account for also novel aspects. The study also covers a wide range of generations, very different from each other, who have undergone profound social changes in their trajectories towards adulthood. This places us in a new context from which to resume the debate on emancipation in Spain.
It should be noted that the most important changes are concentrated between the generations born until 1959 and those born after. The youth transitions of the most recent generations show a clear trend towards greater complexity, with a greater presence of non-linear and reversible paths.
At the same time, we have found evidence that the trajectories of older generations were not as linear as previous studies have suggested. This work also provides solid evidence that it is women who have led the most notable changes. Among them, the changes that have occurred between the oldest and youngest generations are much greater than among men.
