Vital Statistics: Divorce Detail [United States], 1986 (ICPSR 3176)

Version Date: Jan 23, 2009

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03176.v2

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Summary

This file contains demographic data for divorces occurring in the United States during the 1986 calendar year. The data were taken from divorce certificates registered with the vital statistics offices of 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The certificates for each state were chosen at one of five sampling rates (5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 percent), depending on the total number of divorces occurring in the state during the year. Each record includes a weight factor based on the sampling fraction of the reporting state. The demographic data collected include age, race, education, and natality of divorcing parties, and the number of this divorce. Information about the divorce itself includes month, day, and week of the divorce.

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Statistics: Divorce Detail [United States], 1986. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-01-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03176.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

In preparing the data file for this collection, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has removed direct identifiers and characteristics that might lead to identification of data subjects. As an additional precaution NCHS requires, under Section 308(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m), that data collected by NCHS not be used for any purpose other than statistical analysis and reporting. NCHS further requires that analysts not use the data to learn the identity of any persons or establishments and that the director of NCHS be notified if any identities are inadvertently discovered. ICPSR member institutions and other users ordering data from ICPSR are expected to adhere to these restrictions.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1986

Date of Collection

1986

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

Five sampling rates (5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 percent) were used, depending on the total number of divorces performed in the state during the year.

Universe

All divorces in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands in 1986.

Data Source

marriage and divorce certificates

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2001-08-06

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Statistics: Divorce Detail [United States], 1986. ICPSR03176-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-01-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03176.v2

2009-01-23 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

2001-08-06 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
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