Housing Problems of Young Families in the North

Abstract

The Sakha Republic's (Yakutia's) favorable age structure, with an almost equal ratio of men to women of marriageable age, creates a broad "market" for marriage partners and, accordingly, ensures a steady high marriage rate. According to the latest census, in 1989, the age of the married couple does not exceed thirty in one out of every seven marriages in the republic. One might say, in other words, that one characteristic of the population's marital structure is the broad representation of young families having the full complex of specific features of their formation, development, and stability. Among the factors that determine demographic processes, housing conditions are of great importance. They are indicated among the most important factors that restrict birth rates among young married couples who were surveyed in Yakutsk.