title: Family characteristics and offspring growth in various countries. I. Frequency of various family types in Bulgaria, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Poland.
abstract: 9936 families were analyzed from Bulgaria, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Poland. A factor analysis revealed four factors: culture (F1), income (F2), genetics (F3), and family and apartment size (F4). Family types we coded as 1 if below the median and 2 if above the median. The most frequent types were represented by 1122, 2221, and 2211 (frequency 8.7-8.0%), and the least frequent by 1221 and 2111 (frequency 4.2-4.3%). Some similarity with respect to family types were found between populations: from Polish regions with heavy industry and seaside regions; from Polish towns under industrialization and from Mexico; from the Polish medium-size town of Lublin and Bulgarian towns; from Polish villages; from Polish mountain areas and north-eastern towns; from Korea; from Japan; from Polish cities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wolański
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Czarzasta
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dickinson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Liocheva
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Seiwa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tomonari
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsushima
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height / Q000235:genetics; D002031:Bulgaria; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006128:Growth / Q000235:genetics; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007564:Japan; D007723:Korea; D008800:Mexico; D011044:Poland