Abstrakt
Household composition is still a relatively new and less frequently explored topic. There have been many changes in Czech demographic behaviour since the Velvet Revolution.
There has been a decrease in nuptiality and an increase in cohabitation and extra-marital fertility. The timing of marriage and the birth of the first child has also changed.
Moreover, the share of lone-parent families has grown. All these changes have significantly influenced household composition and family arrangements.
In this article, the structure of family arrangements in the Czech Republic over the past twenty years is analysed using the Labour Force Survey nd EU-SILC survey. The biggest advantage of these surveys is that unlike demographic statistics, which report on a mother's marital status at the time of birth of a child, they provide information about family arrangements by the age of the child.
The advantage of these surveys over the census that is usually used for analyses of household composition is that data are available for every year.