Contemporaneous Versus Retrospective Reports of Cohabitation in the Fragile Families Survey

Teitler, Julien O.; Reichman, Nancy E.; Koball, Heather

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00265.x

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“…By the period 1997-2001, half of all nonmarital births were to cohabiting parents. Two recent studies also find this: a Child Trends study that uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study's 2001 birth cohort (Mincieli et al 2007) and the Fragile Families study of children born between 1998 and 2000 in metropolitan areas (McLanahan et al 2003;Teitler, Reichman, and Koball 2006).F 8 F By the late 1990s, 18 percent of children were born to cohabiting parents, a finding replicated by Child Trends (Mincieli et al 2007). …”

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Cohabitation and children's living arrangements

Kennedy¹,

Bumpass²

2008

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Section: B 43 Children's Family Contexts At Birthmentioning

confidence: 63%

Cohabitation and children's living arrangements

Kennedy¹,

Bumpass²

2008

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“…First, each of the surveys in the Harmonized Histories suffers from its own limitations, such as response rates or missing information (for details, see Perelli-Harris, Kreyenfeld, and Kubisch 2010). Second, retrospective data, in particular reporting of past cohabitating unions, may be subject to recall error or underreporting (Teitler, Reichman, and Koball 2006;Hayford and Morgan 2008). Third, the relatively small number of cohabiting women does not allow us to include interaction effects with first union type.…”

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Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics

Gałęzewska¹,

Perelli‐Harris²,

Berrington³

2017

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BACKGROUNDWith rising union instability across Europe, more individuals now re-enter the partner market and eventually repartner. The increase in cohabitation may also be influencing repartnering behaviour. While several studies examine individual-level characteristics related to repartnering, few take a broader view and compare repartnering levels or explore how demographic characteristics associated with repartnering differ across Europe. OBJECTIVEWe describe levels of repartnering and the characteristics of those exposed to repartnering in 11 European countries. We then examine whether the relationship between women's demographic characteristics at union dissolution and repartnering are similar or different across countries. Given the recent increase in cohabitation, we pay particular attention to prior cohabitation and marriage, but we also compare age at first union dissolution, first union duration, and presence of children. METHODSUsing the Harmonized Histories database, we apply discrete-time hazard models separately by country and to pooled cross-national data. RESULTSDespite large differences in levels of repartnering, in most countries we find similar associations between demographic characteristics and repartnering. First union type did not matter after controlling for age and children, except in France, where those who previously cohabited had significantly lower risks of repartnering. Age at union

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“…For example, a mother living alone may have greater access to government support than she would with a cohabiting partner (Carlson et al 2004;Perelli-Harris and Sánchez Gassen 2012). In retrospective reports, social desirability may lead respondents to report union dates that encompass a child's birth (Teitler, Reichman, and Koball 2006) or to omit births that occurred out of union or in a prior union (Klijzing and Cairns 2000;Rendall et al 1999). Because social acceptance of cohabitation has increased in most wealthy countries (Thomson 2005), it is quite likely that some part of the apparent increase in cohabitation and in births to cohabiting parents is due to increased accuracy of reports.…”

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Register-based estimates of parents' coresidence in Sweden, 1969-2007

Thomson

Eriksson

2013

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BACKGROUNDMany of the dramatic changes in family formation and dissolution observed in wealthy countries over the past 60 years are tracked through vital statistics or censuses. The signature change in family behavior -non-marital cohabitation -is not, however, registered in most settings. OBJECTIVEWe evaluate the quality of new register-based estimates of parents‗ union status at birth and of separation during the childrearing years. METHODSParents of a common child are identified through the Multi-Generation Register that links each child to each parent and therefore each parent to each other. The Total Population Register identifies the property at which each parent is registered at the end of each year. We use the five-year censuses 1960-1990 as one standard of comparison because the censuses identify the dwelling unit for each parent on the census date. RESULTSProperty-based estimates of parents‗ coresidence compare very well to census reports. Register-based estimates are virtually identical with those produced from the 1992 Swedish Fertility and Family Survey; differences between register estimates and those produced from the 1991 and 2000 Level of Living Survey can be explained by differences in measurement of marriage and cohabitation.1 Stockholm University Demography Unit, Department of Sociology, Sweden. E-Mail: elizabeth.thomson@sociology.su.se. 2 Stockholm University Demography Unit, Department of Sociology, Sweden. E-Mail: helen.eriksson@sociology.su.se. Thomson & Eriksson:Register-based estimates of parents' coresidence in Sweden, 1969Sweden, -2007Sweden, 1154 http://www.demographic-research.org CONCLUSIONSEstimates of parents‗ cohabitation based on annual, property-level registration are of sufficient quality for their use in substantive analyses of union status at birth and parents‗ separation in Sweden. COMMENTSAlthough register-based estimates of parents‗ coresidence at a child‗s birth or afterwards can be generated only for a select group of countries, their use can be fruitful for understanding more general processes of family change. Centralized administrative registers exist in many countries but have not been made fully available for research therefore losing much of the potential value.

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Contemporaneous Versus Retrospective Reports of Cohabitation in the Fragile Families Survey

Cited by 60 publications

References 31 publications

Cohabitation and children's living arrangements

Cohabitation and children's living arrangements

Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics

Register-based estimates of parents' coresidence in Sweden, 1969-2007

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