Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Bramlett, Matthew D. ; Mosher, William D.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), Division of Vital Statistics.
• Description:
  OBJECTIVES: This report presents national estimates of the probabilities of marital and cohabitation outcomes for women 15-44 years of age in 1995, by a wide variety of individual- and community-level characteristics. The life-table analysis in this report takes a life cycle approach to estimate the probabilities that: a woman will marry for the first time, an intact first cohabitation will make the transition to marriage, a first cohabitation will end in separation, a first marriage will end in separation or divorce, a disrupted first marriage will be followed by a new cohabitation, a separation from first marriage will result in divorce, a divorce from first marriage will be followed by remarriage, and a second marriage will end in separation or divorce. METHODS: The life-table estimates presented here are based on a nationally representative sample of women 15-44 years of age in the United States in 1995 from the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 5. RESULTS: The analyses show that various individual and community-level characteristics are related to the marital and cohabitational outcomes examined in this report. The results consistently demonstrate that the cohabitations and marriages of non-Hispanic black women are less stable than those of non-Hispanic white women. An analysis of trends over time suggests that differences by race/ethnicity are becoming more pronounced in recent years. Racial differences observed are associated with individual characteristics and with the characteristics of the communities in which the women live.- p. 1
• Content Notes:
  "By Matthew D. Bramlett, Ph.D. and William D. Mosher, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics." - p. 1
  
  "Data from the national survey of family growth."
  
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Data Collection Divorce Ethnicity Marital Status Marriage Poverty Remarriage Residence Characteristics Sexual Partners Trends Unmarried Couples Women

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• Source:
  Vital and health statistics. Series 23, Data from the national survey of family growth ; no. 22 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2002-1998
• Series:
  Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; vii, 93 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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