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Marital Instability Over the Life Course [United States]: A Three-Wave Panel Study, 1980-1988

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Principal Investigator(s): Booth, Alan, et al.

Summary: 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 econom... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09747.v2

Access Notes

  • This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

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