Table 2.

Percentage Distributions of Characteristics for Persons Who Divorced and Persons Who Remained Married in the Last 12 Months by Age Groups

	50+			50–64			65+
	Divorced	Married		Divorced	Married		Divorced	Married
Demographic characteristics
Gender									**
Women	48.99	47.71		48.86	49.45		49.63	44.72
Men	51.01	52.29		51.14	50.55		50.37	55.28
Race and ethnicity			***			***			***
White	69.36	77.90		69.49	75.49		68.77	82.06
Black	15.16	7.37		15.63	8.11		12.96	6.10
Hispanic	9.69	8.58		9.19	9.67		12.04	6.70
Others	5.78	6.15		5.69	6.73		6.24	5.14
Economic resources
Education			***			***			***
Less than high school	15.80	13.77		13.85	10.98		24.95	18.56
High school graduate	28.87	30.13		28.16	28.24		32.20	33.37
Some college	30.93	27.28		32.66	29.65		22.80	23.20
Bachelor's degree or more	24.40	28.82		25.33	31.12		20.05	24.87
Employment			***			***			***
Not in labor force	30.33	44.12		21.89	24.63		69.81	77.64
Unemployed	8.54	4.01		9.54	5.52		3.83	1.40
Worked part-time	11.77	11.83		11.84	12.69		11.47	10.36
Worked full-time	49.36	40.04		56.73	57.16		14.90	10.59
Personal income			**			***			**
<10K	20.73	22.94		20.17	21.17		23.35	25.98
10–25K	26.40	25.12		23.60	20.36		39.45	33.31
25–40K	17.54	16.55		17.78	16.45		16.40	16.71
40–55K	12.28	11.89		13.18	13.49		8.08	9.14
55–70K	7.49	7.19		8.17	8.51		4.35	4.93
>70K	15.56	16.31		17.10	20.02		8.37	9.94
Marital biographies
Marriage order			***			***			***
First marriage	47.93	69.74		49.06	68.01		42.65	72.72
Higher order marriage	52.07	30.26		50.94	31.99		57.35	27.28
Marital duration (years)			***			***			***
0–9	23.44	8.08		24.36	10.32		19.11	4.23
10–19	21.02	12.01		22.47	15.44		14.24	6.11
20–29	24.96	20.69		27.17	27.40		14.60	9.14
30-39	20.16	26.16		21.56	35.08		13.61	10.81
40+	10.42	33.06		4.43	11.76		38.44	69.71
Unweighted N	6,772	751,063		5,466	457,346		1,306	293,717

Note: ** p < .01. ***p < .001, Pearson’s chi-squared test.