Table 1.

Life table estimates of women’s marriage and education transitions and characteristics

Percentage First Married by Age 41	87.5
Median Age at First Marriage	23.7
Percentage of First Marriages Dissolved Within 10 Years of Marriage	37.2
Percentage Remarried Within 10 Years of a Marital Dissolution	68.9
Percentage of Marriages With an Education Category Upgrade Within 10 Years of Marriage
Either upgrades	24.2
Wife upgrades	13.6
Husband upgrades	14.0
Wife’s Years of Schooling at First Marriagea (%)
<12	6.8
12	37.2
13–15	28.5
≥16	27.5
Husband’s Years of Schooling at First Marriagea (%)
<12	10.3
12	40.5
13–15	21.7
≥16	27.5

Note: Data are weighted using 1979 sampling weights.

Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), 1979–2002.

^aCalculated for couples in which wives are aged 18 to 41.