Table 3. Marital status at age 40 a“d age 49 for women over the 1967-86 time pwiod
On percent)
Maritil stit.s eansition
Category
Mzried at 40
Mamied at 49
.
Manied at 40
angle at 49
3ingle at 40
Mmried at 49
3ingle at 40
Sngle at 49
To&l . . . . . . . . . .... . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . .
722
10.2
3.9
13.9
Race
WMte . . . ... . . . . . . . ... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. . . . ..Gher . . . . . . .. . ... . . . ... . . . . .. .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
75.7
45,9
9.7
12,5
3,5
7.0
11.1
34,6
6&3
76.9
69.3
74.4
10,9
9,5
12.0
7.9
4.7
3.9
2,9
2.5
19.1
9.8
15.6
15,2
74.4
73,4
71.5
71.4
69.9
10.4
8.9
9.7
11.4
9.7
3.5
3.4
3.4
5,5
3.9
11.7
14.3
15,4
11.7
16.5
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Technical Note
Data ti this repoti me from the National hngitudiml
Sumeys @LS), which me spomord by the Bur=u of
Lahr SWtistics (BLS). The Bur=u mtmcts
tith the
&k
For Hum
R~wce
R~ach
of The Ohio State
Utivmity
to mwge
tie smeys and protide uwr
tias.
The NLS wwe &Wn fi tie fid- 19~s with the
dmwtig of four smpl~
Young Men who w~e 1424
Yold m of Jm~
1, 1966, Young Women who were
1424 Y-old
m ofJmuq
1, 1968, Older Men who were
45-59 yold m of Jmu~
1, 1966, md ~tue
Women
who wme 3N
Yold m of Januv
1, 1967. Wch
sample ori~~y
had about 5,~ individuals with ovmsmpl= of blinks. In the -Iy
198Us, the Young Mm ad
Old= Men smqs
were discontinued. The two women,s
smeys conthue md me cumently co~ected eve~ 2 yem.
me&m co~wtion is wd~km
forBLS by the .Bur=u of
the Census.
In 1979, a new whoti w= kgun with a saple of over
12,~
yomg men ma women who were 14-21 y=
of
age a of JmUU 1, 1979. It hclud= oymsampl= of
blink, =ptic$
emnorn]dy
dlsadvmtigd
whites,
ad youth h the tifi@.
The mfit~
ovemmple was
dismtiud
tier the 1984 swey, and the econofimlly
disadvmbged wtite oversaple
was disconttiued tier
the 1990 smey. This sumey is called the Youth mhoti,
md the mhti membms have bem titefiewed eve~ YW
skm if begin. The b~ co~~tion for the Youth cohofi is
wdtien
by NORC @ational
Opifion Res@rch
bter),
a swid science r=ach
center a~ati
with the
Ufivetity of ~cago.
The &h h this repoti me wtightd w tbt the saple is
5
repraentitive of the age floup studld. The saple includ= those tidividu~ who wme rmpndents at age 49.
The Mature Woma’s smey W= not tittimd
ti the
y1968, 1970, 1973, 1975,1978, 1980,1983, md 1985.
Retrospective
qu-tions
protide for data m w=ks
worked for d y=qt
1973 and 1975. For th=e yit was msmed that women workd tie average of the
numb of weeb worked they= prweding and fouotig
the &sing y-.
Infomtim
on kbr force s~tus and
mtitil s~tus is not available at age W md age 49 for some
r=pondents. ti th=e ins~cm, &ta from age 39 W= UA
h plti of age 40, and data fmm age 50 was uti h place
of age .49.
N ~=enc=
tht me discussd h the text me stitistiC41Yti~iflcmt at the 90-per-t
mnfidenm level. Due to
s-pbg
vtiabtity, sti
dflerma
betw=ttit=
that me not diwmsed in the text should h inte~reti
tith mution. For a detid
aplaation
of the NLS, see
NLS Hmdbook
1993 (Mt&
for Human Reource
Res~rch, The OhIO Stite Univemity). For Momation
about the NLS, or to be phd
on a m~ng fist for this
pubfimtion, write to Natioti
tin~tuditi
Smeys,
Bur=u of Labor Smtitim, Office of Rach
and
Evalmtion, 2 Wwwhusetk
Ave., NE, Room 4915,
Washimston, DC 20212-W1,
or dl
(202) 606-7405.
Itiomation
h this r~ofi till be tie
avtilable to
sao~
tipaird
inditidds
upon rqu=t. Voi& phone
(2o2) 606-STAT; TDD phone (202) 606-5897; TDD
me=age refd
phone 1-800-326-2577. This mterial is
h the pubfic domin md, tith appropriate crdlt, may be
reprduced without ptiwion.