A regional geography of the household forms in the Europe of the Second Demographic Transition

This article analyzes the geographical distribution of household structures in Europe, based on simultaneous and methodologically comparable data from 32 European countries and 1,340 NUTS 3 regions (Eurostat) drawn from the 2010 census round. With this information, we build a detailed map of household types to identify those structures which have a higher incidence in the unequal spatial distribution of household forms. To carry out this work, spatial econometric techniques, analysis of principal components, and clusters have been employed. The geography of household types that results from our analysis confirms the existence of a significant spatial autocorrelation for all the household structures analyzed. Thus, the types of households are not distributed randomly in the European territory.