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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2012;38(1):55–81. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00472.x

Table 2.

Number of regions with shares of cohabitation among all unions of 20 and 50 percent respectively, women 25-29. Latin American countries, 1970-2000 census rounds

>20% >50%

1970 1980 1990 2000 1970 1980 1990 2000
Chile 0 (13) 0 (13) 0 (13) 9 (13) 0 (13) 0 (13) 0 (13) 0 (13)
Brazil 2 (26) 22 (133) 67 (135) 131 (135) 0 (26) 0 (133) 3 (135) 29 (135)
Puerto Rico 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Bolivia 8 (9) 2 (9)
Argentina 8 (23) 8 (24) 18 (24) 24 (24) 1 (23) 0 (24) 0 (24) 4 (24)
Mexico 8 (30) 8 (32) 20 (32) 0 (30) 0 (32) 0 (32)
Costa Rica 3 (7) 3 (7) 6 (7) 0 (7) 0 (7) 2 (7)
Colombia 15 (27) 28 (30) 30 (30) 33 (33) 2 (27) 4 (30) 19 (30) 33 (33)
Ecuador 7 (21) 8 (20) 9 (22) 13 (23) 3 (21) 3 (20) 3 (22) 5 (23)
Cuba 15 (15) 10 (15)
Venezuela 23 (24) 24 (24) 24 (24) 24 (24) 5 (24) 4 (24) 3 (24) 16 (24)
Peru 25 (25) 25 (25) 8 (25) 24 (25)
Panama 10 (10) 10 (10) 10 (10) 11 (11) 8 (10) 9 (10) 8 (10) 11 (11)

Note: Regions with less than 50 women among all unions in the dataset are not included.

Source: Own calculations based on Latin American census microdata from IPUMS international