Description & Citation--Study No. 2163 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 2163 |
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Persistent URL:
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| | | Title: | Marital Instability Over the Life Course [United States]: A Five-Wave Panel Study, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1992-1994, 1997 |
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| | | Principal Investigator(s): | Alan Booth, Pennsylvania State University |
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| | | Series: | Marital Instability Over the Life Course Series |
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| | | Funding Agency: | United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging |
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| | | Grant Number: | 1-RO1-AGO4146 |
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| | | Bibliographic Citation: | Booth, Alan. Marital Instability Over the Life Course [United States]: A Five-Wave Panel Study, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1992-1994, 1997 [Computer file]. ICPSR02163-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-25. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02163 |
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| | | | Summary: | To examine the causes of marital instability throughout the
life course, five waves of data were collected between 1980 and 1997
from married individuals who were between the ages of 18 and 55 in
1980. Information collected in 1980 (Wave I) focused on the effects of
wives' participation in the labor force on marriage and marital
instability. Measures predicting marital instability and divorce and
assessing marital quality were developed. Variables include
information on earnings, commitment to work, hours worked, and
occupational status. The focus of Wave II, conducted in 1983, was to
link changes in factors such as economic resources, wife's employment,
presence of children, marital satisfaction, life goals, and health to
actions intended to dissolve a marriage, such as divorce and permanent
separation. Information on adjustment to marital dissolution,
relationship with in-laws, size of home, parents' employment, use of
free time, club membership, child-care arrangements, and
responsibility for chores was gathered. Wave III, collected in 1988,
further examined the impact of changes in employment, economics, and
health on marital relationships. Questions were asked about divorce
and remarriage, investment of energy and resource use in the care of
aging parents and dependent offspring, asset value, awareness of
aging, mental health issues, and history of disease. In 1992, a fourth
wave of data was collected to look at changes in employment,
economics, and health. Questions were asked about retirement issues,
family structure, and the impact of caring for aging parents while at
the same time caring for dependent offspring. Data were also collected
in 1992 and 1994 from adult offspring who were living in the household
in 1980 and had reached age 19 by 1992, thus providing parallel
measures with their parents regarding the quality of parent-child
relationships, attitudes, and support along with exploring the impact
of childhood experiences on the transition to adult life. In 1997,
the fifth wave was collected and interviews were conducted with a
second sample of adult offspring (N=202) along with second interviews
of offspring selected in 1992 (N=606). Wave 5 also examines the
relationship between marital quality and stability and how it relates
to changes in marital quality later in life. Among the variables
included in all five waves are age, sex, educational attainment,
marital status and history, attitude toward divorce, number of
children, religious affiliation, and income level. |
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| | | Subject Term(s): | aging, career goals, caregiver burden, divorce, dual career couples, expectations, family life, family work relationship, gender roles, health, life events, life plans, marital instability, marital satisfaction, marriage, mental health, occupational status, parent child relationship, personal finances, work attitudes |
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| | | Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| | | Time Period: | 1980; 1983; 1988; 1992 - 1994; 1997 |
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| | | Date(s) of Collection: | 1980, fall; 1983, spring; 1988; 1992 - 1994; 1997 |
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| | | Universe: | All intact marriages in the continental United States with
partners between the ages of 18 and 55 in 1980 and living in
households with telephones. |
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| | | Data Type: | survey data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | Because of additional cleaning of the data
performed by the principal investigator, this data collection
supersedes earlier versions (ICPSR 9199, ICPSR 9200, and ICPSR
9747). |
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| In ICPSR's processing of this collection, missing data
codes defined by the principal investigators were left unchanged at
their request, and SAS and SPSS system missing data were assigned
numeric codes for each variable. Also, an unmarried case in Wave I was
deleted at the principal investigators' request. |
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| The codebooks are provided by the principal investigator and the user guide for Wave V is provided by ICPSR. |
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| | | | Sample: | National probability sample. The sample was selected using
a random-digit dialing cluster technique. Data were weighted to adjust
for underrepresentation in metropolitan areas. |
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| | | Data Source: | telephone interviews and mailback questionnaires |
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| | | | Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the
summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 1998-03-17 |
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| | | Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2001-09-20. |
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| 2001-09-20 - Data for Wave 5 (1997) has been provided by the
principal investigator, along with a PDF codebook and a user
guide. Corresponding SAS and SPSS data definition statements were also
added. |
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| | | Dataset(s): | - DS1: Data File
- DS2: Codebook for Waves I, II, III: 1980, 1983, 1988
- DS3: Codebook for Wave IV: 1992 and 1994
- DS4: Codebook for Wave V: 1997
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