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| Age differences at marriage and divorce | | Author(s) | Ben Wilson, Steve Smallwood |
| Journal title | Population Trends, no 132, Summer 2008 |
| Pages | pp 17-25 |
| Source | http://www.statistics.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Marriage ; Divorce ; Age group distribution statistics ; Comparison ; England ; Wales. |
| Annotation | Age difference is of interest to the study of families and partnership behaviour. It is also important because of the link with broader socio-demographic changes, such as population ageing, delayed fertility and the provision of care. This article explores the age difference of marrying and divorcing couples, calculated by subtracting the wife's age from the husband's age. The main finding is that between 1963 and 2005, the distribution of age differences over all marriages is very similar in each year to the distribution of age differences for the subset of couples who married in that year, but have since divorced. While there is some evidence of small variations in the proportion of marriages that end in divorce by age difference, there does not seem to be evidence of a strong association. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080718202 A |
| Classmark | SL: SOH: S6: 48: 82: 9 |
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