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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2010 Jan 1;23(17):479–508. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.17

Table 1.

Trends in the proportion of children born to married, cohabiting, and lone parents by parent education

Parent
education		 1970s 1980s 1990s
Married Cohabiting Lone Married Cohabiting Lone Married Cohabiting Lone
Primary 0.50 0.45 0.05 0.40 0.56 0.04 0.35 0.59 0.06
Secondary 0.60 0.39 0.02 0.44 0.53 0.03 0.38 0.59 0.03
Tertiary 0.68 0.30 0.02 0.63 0.35 0.02 0.59 0.38 0.03
Total 0.58 0.39 0.03 0.47 0.50 0.03 0.43 0.54 0.03