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Title: The Rise of Cohabitation in the United States: New Historical Estimates

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: The rise of cohabitation in the United States in the late twentieth century is an important component of the dramatic changes in marriage, family formation and childbearing (e.g., Bumpass, Sweet and Cherlin 1991; Bumpass and Lu 2000; Casper and Bianchi 2002; Manning 1995). This increase, first noted in the 1970s, was initially inferred from household composition because few data sources collected direct information on couples “living together” (Glick and Norton 1977, Glick and Spanier 1980). Research on cohabitation exploded in the 1980s as the trend accelerated and when longitudinal data sources, such as the National Survey of Families and Households, provided nationally representative datasets designed . . .

Url: https://pop.umn.edu/sites/pop.umn.edu/files/wp-2005-3.pdf

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Authors: Fitch, Catherine; Goeken, Ron; Ruggles, Steven

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Publication Number: 2005-03

Institution: University of Minnesota

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Publisher Location: Minneapolis

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other

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