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The purpose of the Early Years of Marriage (EYM) Project\nwas to determine ways in which the early development of marriage for\nBlack couples and White couples affect the mental and physical health\nof spouses, marital stability, long-term marital outcomes, patterns of\nfamily life and, for those who divorce, individual adjustment to\nfamily disruption. The EYM Project began in 1986 with 373 newlywed\ncouples--174 White couples and 199 Black couples. The marriages were\nall intra-racial and it was the first marriage for both spouses.<\/p>\n
Year 1 interviews, which queried the couples on various aspects of\nmarried life, began after four to nine months into the marriage. Very\nfew respondents who originally participated in Year 1 of the study\nrefused to participate in subsequent phases of the study. In 1986\n(Year 1) and 1988 (Year 3) spouses were interviewed in their homes\nseparately and together, with the interviews conducted by interviewers\nof the same race. In 1987 (Year 2) and 1989 (Year 4) shorter\nindividual telephone interviews were conducted.<\/p>\n
In all four years, respondents were queried on a wide variety of\ntopics such as feelings and perceptions of their own family, spouse,\nin-laws, and their spouse's friends, family planning, how many\nchildren they should have, how the children should be reared,\nchildcare, and household roles and responsibilities. A series of\nquestions was asked about reasons for getting married, how satisfying\nmarried life was, what, if any, were the special pleasures and good\nfeelings that came from being married, how often arguments and\ndisagreements occurred, main reasons for arguments, and how they were\neventually resolved. A series of questions were also asked regarding\nthe mental and physical health of the spouse, job satisfaction, job\nsecurity, and how the job affected the family. In Year 2 and Year 4\ninterviews (Parts 2-4), a series of questions regarding separation and\ndivorce were also asked.<\/p>\n
Demographic variables include race, gender, age, level of\neducation, occupation, income, and religious preference.<\/p>","distributions":[{"access":[{"authentications":[{"value":"simpleLogin","valueIRI":""}],"authorizations":[{"value":"clickLicense","valueIRI":""}],"landingPage":"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.3886\/ICPSR04557.v1","types":[{"value":"download","valueIRI":""}]}],"conformsTo":[{"description":"Metadata are prepared using Data Documentation Intitiative Codebook 2.5.","name":"DDI"}],"curationStatus":[],"dates":[{"date":"2007-10-03 00:00:00.0","type":{"value":"initial release date","valueIRI":""}},{"date":"2007-10-03 00:00:00.0","type":{"value":"modification date","valueIRI":""}}],"licenses":[{"identifiers":[{"identifier":"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/icpsrweb\/ICPSR\/studies\/04557\/terms","identifierSource":"http"}],"name":"ICPSR Terms of Use"}],"size":0,"storedIn":[{"name":"Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research","types":[{"value":"primary resource","valueIRI":""}]}],"version":"1"}],"hasPart":[{"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"04557-0001","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Study\/Dataset Number"}],"citationCount":0,"identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.3886\/ICPSR04557.v1","identifierSource":"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/"}],"title":"EYM Project, Year 1 (1986)"},{"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"04557-0002","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Study\/Dataset Number"}],"citationCount":0,"identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.3886\/ICPSR04557.v1","identifierSource":"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/"}],"title":"EYM Project, Year 2 (1987)"},{"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"04557-0003","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Study\/Dataset Number"}],"citationCount":0,"identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.3886\/ICPSR04557.v1","identifierSource":"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/"}],"title":"EYM Project, Year 3 (1988)"},{"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"04557-0004","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Study\/Dataset Number"}],"citationCount":0,"identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.3886\/ICPSR04557.v1","identifierSource":"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/"}],"title":"EYM Project, Year 4 (1989)"}],"identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.3886\/ICPSR04557.v1","identifierSource":"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/"}],"keywords":[{"value":"attitudes"},{"value":"birth expectations"},{"value":"careers"},{"value":"child care"},{"value":"child rearing"},{"value":"children"},{"value":"conflict resolution"},{"value":"divorce"},{"value":"domestic responsibilities"},{"value":"dual career couples"},{"value":"family life"},{"value":"family relations"},{"value":"happiness"},{"value":"health status"},{"value":"households"},{"value":"job loss"},{"value":"job satisfaction"},{"value":"job stress"},{"value":"life satisfaction"},{"value":"marital relations"},{"value":"marital satisfaction"},{"value":"marriage"},{"value":"mental health"},{"value":"perceptions"},{"value":"physical condition"},{"value":"religious beliefs"},{"value":"remarriage"},{"value":"sexual attitudes"},{"value":"spouses"},{"value":"unemployment"},{"value":"working hours"}],"title":"Early Years of Marriage (EYM) Project, Years 1-4, 1986-1989","types":[{"information":{"value":"survey data"}}]}