House floor area as a correlate of marital residence pattern: a logistic regression approach

Marital residence (matrilocal versus patrilocal) will be associated with household floor area (414).

The relationship remains significant for a sample of agricultural societies, but loses significance for a sample of non-agricultural societies.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
logistic regression	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Household Floor Area	Association	Dwellings
Marital Residence	Association	Residence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Divale, William Tulio	1977	Matrilocality will be positively associated with larger living floor areas (110).	`UNKNOWN`	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Barton McCaul	1987	Matrilocal societies have higher dwelling sizes than patrilocal societies.	`UNKNOWN`	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Porcic, Marko	2012	Expected that more mobile societies have lower ratio of average household size to average house floor area than more sedentary societies (75).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1974	"Uxorilocal or matrilocal residence should be correlated with houses that have larger living floor areas than houses where avunculocal or patrilocal residence is practiced" (299)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1974	"External warfare should be correlated with houses that have larger living floor areas while internal warfare should be associated with smaller floor areas" (302)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author