“…AR and PMD measures, as well as their associated variants, require weights reflecting the suitability of male and female age groups to each other. These weights were specified by analysing several German surveys that include detailed information about couple relationships: the German Family Survey (all waves, Bien & Marbach, ), the Generations and Gender Survey (all waves, German samples, Naderi, Dorbritz, & Ruckdeschel, ), the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (waves 1 to 3, Huinink et al, ), the German Aging Survey (waves 1 to 3, Engstler & Schmiade, ), the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (all waves, German sample, Börsch‐Supan, Brandt, Howard, & Weber, ), and the German Socio‐economic Panel (GSOEP; Haisken‐DeNew & Frick, ). Using these surveys, we computed probabilities of age constellations in newly formed couple relationships (in detail Eckhard et al, : 16–44).…”