关键词: 已婚者, 家户结构, 生命阶段, 社会转型, 人口普查数据

Abstract:  Data from the four censuses since 1982 show that there are both similarities and differ- ences in the household structure between urban and rural married people at different stages of their life course. In urban areas，the majority of newly married people had established independent living u- nits. After giving birth to the first child，women mainly lived in nuclear households. When children grew up and became married，the proportion of the " empty nest" household among the elderly couples in- creased considerably. A gradually growing trend was observed in the widowed elderly living alone. However，widowed elderly living with their married children still accounted for a larger propor- tion. Before 2000，the household structure of rural married people was similar to that of their urban counterparts over their life course. In 2010，the proportion of newly married people living alone was low- er than that in 2000. The proportion of nuclear households declined for those married people who just had the first child，while the proportion of young married people living with parents or parents in law in the lineal household increased.

Keywords: Married People, Household Structure, Life Course, Social Transformation, Census Data