Social integration Becoming an adult: average age 2006 - By sex and country Definitions/comments: Years correspond to people's ages when the four following transitions took place: paid job: first paid employment or paid apprenticeship of 20 hours or more per week (for at least 3 months); leaving parents’ home (for 2 months or more); living with a partner (3 months or more); birth of first child. Question wording: ‘Now some questions about when you first did different things. Have you ever been in paid employment or a paid apprenticeship of 20 hours or more per week for at least 3 months? [if yes:] In what year did you first start working in a job like this?’; ‘In what year, if ever, did you first leave your parent(s) for 2 months or more to start’; ‘Have you ever lived with a spouse or partner for three months or more? [if yes:] In what year did you first live with a spouse or partner for three months or more?’; ‘Have you ever given birth to/fathered a child? [if yes:] In what year was your (first) child born?’. Sample size: ESS 2006: 1804–2916; weighted data. Source: ESS 2006. Data for the indicator or in excel. Description and explanation in the corresponding chapter of the Social Report 2008.
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