Abstract
‘Family and household demography’ differs from traditional demography in that it explicitly recognizes and studies relationships between individuals. It studies how the core processes of birth, death, marriage, divorce, and migration occur to multiple persons interacting with each other. In doing so, additional relevant processes like entering or leaving co-residence are also studied. In short, relationships between individuals are the central focus of family and household demography. This article outlines the main subfields within the broad area of family and household demography: demography of kinship, households, families, and marriage, respectively. It briefly discusses data issues and definitional problems with a direct bearing on family and household demography. The main part of the article is concerned with formal modeling of households and families, in particular with strategies to overcome the inherent complexity of these models. Three classes of strategies are discussed in more detail: severing the link between related individuals; macro vs. micro models; static vs. dynamic models.
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