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Title: Measuring Marriage to Same-Gender Couples in the United States: Assessing New Data From the Current Population Survey

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Since June 26, 2015 marriages to same-sex couples have been legally recognized across every state in the nation, but there have been challenges to measuring these marriages. Starting in 2017 every household in the Current Population Survey (CPS) was offered a new household roster that directly identified same-sex and different-sex cohabiting and married couples. To gauge how the estimates of same-gender households compare across the traditional and new roster we compare estimates of same-sex couple households using the traditional roster in the 2015 and 2016 CPS to estimates based on the new roster using the 2017 and 2018 CPS. Employing these new indicators, we establish the levels of cohabitation and marriage among same-sex couples and distinguish differences according to their sociodemographic characteristics. These findings have implications for the measurement of same-sex couples and our understanding of marriage among sexual minorities.

Url: http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/cfdr

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Authors: Manning, Wendy D; Payne, Krista K

Series Title: 2019 Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 2019-05

Institution: Bowling Green State University

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Publisher Location: Bowling Green, Ohio

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Other

Countries: United States