Sídelná homogamia snúbencov na Slovensku v rokoch 1992 – 2021

Abstract

The choice of a spouse is not a random process. One of its important factors is the place of residence. The main goal of the study was to describe and identify trends in patterns of marital selection behaviour in Slovakia from the point of view of selected geographic characteristics of the spousesʼ place of residence. The obtained results generally confirm the persistence of moderate residential marital homogamy. Moreo- ver, compared to the beginning of the 1990s, its level has risen slightly. It is true that towards a higher administrative unit, the rate of residential marital homogamy in- creases. It turns out that persons living in municipalities, in urban areas, in the Prešov and Žilina regions, as well as in some border districts in the north and south of Slo- vakia, choose a spouse from the same environment more often. In the case of entering marriage with a person of foreign nationality, for both sexes, persons from Czechia have the highest share. In other cases, however, it is true that men more often choose a woman from the countries of the former “ Eastern Bloc ”, while women have a great- er preference for choosing a husband from countries west of the Iron Curtain.