Figure 5. Duration of current and second-most recent partnership.

The distribution of partnership duration of the current partnership (solid black lines, Dutch data), and of the second-most recent partnership (dashed black line, UK data). The Kretzschmar model has only short- and long-term partnerships, and thus provides a less precise fit to the data. The discrepancy between the UK data on long-term partnership duration and the model (bottom orange line) is the consequence of fitting the model to both the UK second-most recent partnership data and the Dutch survey data on the duration of the current partnership (top orange line).