Casa, comida e roupa lavada: fatores associados à saída do jovem brasileiro do domicílio de origem

Abstract

This masters thesis aims at verifying some factors associated with youth departure from the household of origin in Brazil. I consider youth those between 15 and 34 years of age in the date of reference of the survey. I also consider that those who were heads of households or spouses of the heads were the ones who had left the parental household, whereas those who were the children of the head were considered as not having left the household of origin. I used PNAD (National Household Sample Survey) data for urban Brazil in 1986, 1996 and 2006. I did some descriptive analyses for the three years considered and used only 1996 and 2006 data for regression models. Descriptive analyses show that the proportion of youth living with parents is high and has increased over the period. Those who still live with their parents were mostly male, white, with high levels of education and in the labor force. The two decades under study witnessed an increase in the proportion of males who had not left the parental household and did not either work or study. Differently from men, there was an increase in the proportion of female heads and spouses participating in the labor market. Logistic regression results indicate that the significance of race/skin color of the individual has changed between 1996 and 2006. Compared to whites, blacks and browns were less likely to leave the parental household in 1996 but only browns are more likely to do so in 2006. Those with deceased mothers were more likely to have departed from the household of origin, once the mother is responsible for food, shelter, and clean clothes and, in the absence of the mother, the household of origin may be less attractive.