INFLUENCE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON MARITAL BEHAVIOR IN BEDUIDO (ESTARREJA), PORTUGAL

From marriage records of a Northern Portuguese parish for 1900-80, end ogamy and exogamy rates were calculated for birthplace and residence i n order to analyse the effect of industrialisation on the population s tructure after 1940. Marriages that were endogamous relative to birthp lace decreased between 1940-49 (58.9%) and 1988 (20.5%), while exogamy increased. Exogamous marriages in which people came from outside the municipality (51.92%) were greater than those of the surrounding regio n (42.04%). After industrialisation, the pattern of marriages changed for residence, with an increase in the number of individuals who came from the district to work in the factories and married. Industrialisat ion advanced the start of exogamy which, for most Portuguese populatio ns, began later, in the 1960s.