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Title: A More Inclusive Approach to Identifying SameSex Cohabiters in the American Time Use Survey
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: Identification of same-sex couples in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is of increasing interest to the research community. While the ATUS surveys one person per household, using information about who else lives in the household, researchers can easily identify respondents in co-resident same-sex couple arrangements. Previous research has outlined two approaches to identifying same-sex couples in the ATUS that use information on the sex of household members. We extend that work by using additional information collected from a direct question to identify unmarried partners in the CPS. We identify 25% more cohabiting same-sex couples when we use the CPS direct question information than when we use information from the ATUS alone. We argue that our additional identification strategy is more inclusive of same-sex cohabiting relationships
Url: https://assets.ipums.org/_files/mpc/wp2019-04.pdf
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Authors: Flood, Sarah, M; Genadek, Katie
Series Title: Minnesota Poplation Center Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 209-04
Institution: University of Minnesota
Pages: 1-14
Publisher Location: Minnesota
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS, IPUMS Time Use - ATUS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Methodology and Data Collection, Other, Work, Family, and Time
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