Modeling the life cycle of a peasant family (on the materials of budget surveys)

The article discusses the concept of family life cycle and methods of its study. A method for analyzing the life cycle of a peasant family based on the materials of budget surveys of peasant farms in 1928/1929 is proposed. The method is focused on the study of primary data on the composition of the family and its demographic characteristics, recorded in questionnaires and systematized using database technology. Based on information about the age of the head of the family, the number of children of preschool and school age, the composition of the family (demographic type), the stages of the life cycle were identified, the duration of individual stages and the entire cycle as a whole was determined.