ICPSR Metadata record for Marital Instability Over the Life Course [United States]: A Three-Wave Panel Study, 1980-1988 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Marital Instability Over the Life Course [United States]: A Three-Wave Panel Study, 1980-1988 Booth, Alan, et al. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-11-04 9747 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09747.v2
The purpose of this data collection was to identify the causes of marital instability throughout the life course. A national sample of married individuals 55 years of age or younger was interviewed by telephone in 1980 and reinterviewed in 1983 and 1988. Spouses were not interviewed. In the first wave of data the investigators focused on female labor force participation, while the next two waves were guided by a life course perspective. An attempt was made to link changes in items such as economic resources, wife's employment, presence of children, marital satisfaction, life goals, and health, to divorce, permanent separation, and other actions intended to dissolve a marriage. Background variables on respondents include age, sex, educational attainment, marital status and history, number of children, religious affiliation, and income level. Information also is supplied on relationship with in-laws, size of home, parents' employment, use of free time, club membership, child care arrangements, and responsibility for chores.
 UniverseScheme09747 Marital Instability Over the Life Course/Work and Family Life Study Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00187. Organization09747_1 1-RO1-AGO4146 DSDR.IV NACDA.I ICPSR.XVII.H RCMD.XIII DSDR.IX career goals divorce dual career couples expectations family life family work relationship gender roles health life events life plans marital instability marital satisfaction marriage occupational status personal finances United States 1980 1988 survey data All intact marriages in the continental United States with partners between the ages of 18 and 55 living in households with telephones. National probability sample. The sample was selected using a random-digit dialing cluster technique. Data were weighted to adjust for underrepresentation in metropolitan areas. telephone interviews 1980 1980 1983 1983 1988 1988

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  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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ICPSR distributes Wave I of this collection separately as FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND MARITAL INSTABILITY, 1980: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 9199), and Wave II as MARITAL INSTABILITY OVER THE LIFE COURSE, 1983: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 9200).
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In processing this collection, missing data codes defined by the principal investigators have been 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 investigator's request.