Divorce rate
The discrimination rate ( Anglizismus , eigtl. Discrimination ratio ) indicates the ratio between divorces and marriages on.
A distinction is made between two calculation methods:
- You put all marriages and all divorces in a certain period in relation or
- marriages concluded in a certain period of time and only their divorces are compared.
calculation
Simple divorce rate
The simple divorce rate is the ratio of all marriages divorced in a year to marriage. A divorce rate of 100% would mean that exactly as many marriages were divorced as there were new ones during the observation period.
According to this definition, in Germany a divorce rate of .
The simple divorce rate is not indicative of the risk of a marriage that entered into divorce during the reporting period.
Exact divorce rate
The divorce rate can be meaningfully calculated as the proportion of marriages concluded in the reporting period which, if the marriage-specific frequency of divorce remains the same, divorce sooner or later. According to this definition, the divorce rate for 2003 was 43.6% in West Germany and 37.1% in East Germany. For Austria, the divorce rate in 2003 was 43.2%.
Divorce risk and sickle function
Divorce risk is called the mode of divorce per year of marriage in the average marriage. One speaks of a sickle function because of the shape . It is an aggregation of individual marriages and represents a life cycle effect . Nationwide, these marriages lasted an average of 9.5 years ( arithmetic mean ).
The sickle function is opposed to the cumulative inertia axiom .
Divorce Rate in Germany
The number of divorces in 2007 fell by 2% compared to the previous year. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office ( Destatis ), almost 187,100 marriages were divorced in Germany in 2007; In 2006, 190,900 divorces were registered. As in the previous year, ten of 1000 existing marriages were divorced in 2007, seven in 1992 and eleven between 2002 and 2005.
From 1992 to 2003, with the exception of 1999, the number of divorces rose steadily from 135,000 to 214,000, although very few marriages were temporarily divorced in the new federal states between 1992 and 1996. Since 2004 there has been a decrease in divorces in Germany.
In the marriages divorced in 2007, the divorce petition was filed in 103,100 cases by the woman (55.1%) and in 68,000 cases (36.3%) by the man. In the remaining cases, both spouses applied for divorce. Compared to 2006, the number of divorces applied for only by men fell by 1.8%, while only divorce applications filed by women fell by 3.3%.
In the majority of all divorces, the spouses are separated for at least one year. 157,500 marriages (84.2%) were divorced in 2007 after a one-year separation, this was 4,000 marriages or 2.5% less than in 2006. In 3,000 divorces, the partners had not been separated for a year (-10.3% compared to the previous year ). The number of divorces after three years of separation has increased slightly to 25,600 (+ 2%).
In 2007, the average marriage length at divorce was 13.9 years. In 2006 the partners had been married on average for 13.7 years and in 1990 for 11.5 years. Thus the tendency of the past few years towards a longer marriage until divorce continues.
Almost half of the married couples divorced in 2007 had children under the age of 18. Compared to 2006, the number of underage children affected by their parents' divorce has decreased from 148,600 to 145,000, which is 2.5%.
As from the statistics of Stat. Federal Office (especially Diagram-1) clearly shows that the divorce rate fell continuously in the 1950s, then rose slowly from 1960 to 1975, then in 1977/78 in the west and from 1990 to 1993 in the east a slump with historic lows would have. Furthermore, the rise in the 50-year trend line is only very small: the decline in the divorce rate in the 1950s was only made up for in the 1980s by the trend. Thus, cyclical and economic conditions do not seem to play a major role, but rather legal and political conditions: The first slump coincided with the introduction of the new divorce law, the second with reunification and thus the abolition of the liberal legal norms of the Family Code (FGB). in favor of the extensive consequences of divorce under the Civil Code . From 1950 to 2005, according to this chart, the share of divorces in all marriage solutions increased from just under 30% to approx. 38%. H. a very moderate average rate of increase.
More recent statistics, however, show a decline in divorce rates. Factors that affect the divorce rate include:
- the existing legal situation , see also marriage law family law
- Life expectancy
- the degree of mobility and anonymity in a society
- social and individual norms
- economic factors that ensure or prevent the respective livelihood of those affected after a divorce. In times of crisis, not only does the divorce rate decrease, but on average an increased level of satisfaction in the existing partnerships is also stated.
Divorce rate in Switzerland
The single divorce rate in Switzerland in 2010 was 51.05%. The annual 43,257 marriages were compared to 22,081 divorces in 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office, Long Series - Marriages and Divorces.
- ↑ a b c Statistics Austria, press information, divorce rate continues to decline - 43 out of 100 marriages end before the divorce judge ( memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2004
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education, Development of the Divorce Rate , 2004
- ↑ http://www.uni-koeln.de/wiso-fak/fisoz/Mitarbeiter/Wagner/Lehre/WS0203/HS/folien/Folien211102.pdf
- ↑ Divorces 2005; destatis; Wiesbaden 2007
- ↑ US Bureau of the Census, Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010 , 1996
