De-familization public effort. Proposed measurement and descriptive analysis for the European Union (1970-1999)

Abstract

This article presents a proposal to measure public effort of de-familization in 15 european countries. Together with others classical measures (public expenditure in family and child educational services) measures of conciliation between labour and family life is included as a dimension of de-familization in order to consider public actions related to new family risks. After a factorial analysis to validate the proposal, a comparative analysis is developed. The results seem to validate the proposal measurement and the importance of the conciliation index to capture the intensity of public effort as well as different strategies from cross-national and longitudinal perspectives.