Some Demographic Characteristics of Recently Married Persons

T HERE is widespread interest in obtaining more comprehensive statistics of marriage and divorce in the United States. While there has been a steady improvement in the data obtained from registration records through the State registrars of vital statistics, the National Office of Vital Statistics (NOVS) of the Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is interested in testing the representativeness of these data and in exploring the possibility of obtaining other valuable data by sampling through the use of the Current Population Survey (CPS) of the Bureau of the Census. The present report compares some of the demographic characteristics of recently married persons as provided by NOVS and those obtained through the sample survey (CPS). The NOVS collection system for marriage and divorce statistics is based primarly upon tabulations prepared in the vital statistics offices 1 of 36 States with central files of marriage records and 30 States with central files of divorce records. In the remaining States records of marriages and divorces are retained by the local officials, usually county officials, who have responsibility for preparing the records.2 Not all of the States with

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• The incidence of divorce within cohorts of American marriages contracted since the civil war

  Open Access•H Preston, Samuel H Preston et al.•Demography•1979

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