Ethnic Intermarriage in Beijing and Xinjiang, China, 1990

Using the one percent samples of the 1990 China Census from Beijing and Xinjiang and binomial logistic regression method, we examine the ethnic intermarriage patterns among the national minority groups in Beijing and Xinjiang. The number of married couples analyzed is 22,909 in Beijing and 27,811 in...

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Published in:Journal of comparative family studies 2005-04, Vol.36 (2), p.187-204
Main Authors: MAMET, RIZVAN, JACOBSON, CARDELL K., HEATON, TIM B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
Chinese culture
Discriminant analysis
Ethnic Groups
Geographic distribution
Geographic regions
Group size
Husbands
Intermarriage
Marriage
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority groups
Muslims
Peoples Republic of China
Urbanization
Wives
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Summary:Using the one percent samples of the 1990 China Census from Beijing and Xinjiang and binomial logistic regression method, we examine the ethnic intermarriage patterns among the national minority groups in Beijing and Xinjiang. The number of married couples analyzed is 22,909 in Beijing and 27,811 in Xinjiang. The findings generally support Blau's (1971) proposition about group size. After taking into account the effects of age, education, urban-rural residency and geographic distribution, in Beijing the Manchu, the Hui and "other" nationalities are significantly more likely to marry out than the Han (all p
ISSN:0047-2328
1929-9850
DOI:10.3138/jcfs.36.2.187