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Title: Women's Union Status at First Birth
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2022
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DOI: 10.18128/D030.V9.0
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Abstract: Both the share of women who have ever married and the share who have ever had a birth has declined (FP-22-19), while those who do marry and/or have a birth are increasingly delaying these events to later ages (FP-21-12, FP-20-06). The marital context in which women have births varies by educational attainment, race/ethnicity, and age (FP-22-13). This profile expands beyond marital status by including cohabitation (union status) and relies on recent data from the 2014 and 2020 June Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to identify recent trends in women’s union status at first birth. Using data from the 2020 supplement to focus just on first births occurring between 2018 and 2020, we further consider union status by educational attainment, race/ethnicity, and age at first birth. Only women who were aged 44 or younger at first birth are included in the analyses. In this profile, “single” refers to those who are not married nor living with a partner.
Url: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1288&context=ncfmr_family_profiles
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Authors: Brown, Adrianne R.
Series Title: National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles
Publication Number: Family Profile No. 21, 2022
Institution: Bowling Green State Univesity
Pages: 1-3
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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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