Appendix Table 1.
Sample Sizes of Marriages and Dissolutions by Data Source and Marriage Cohort
| Marriage Cohort | NSFG
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PSID
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Census/June CPS
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973–1995
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2002 & 2006–10
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| Marriages | Dissolutions | Marriages | Dissolutions | Marriages | Dissolutions | Marriages | |
| 1950–54 | 1,795 | 501 | -- | -- | 432 | -- | -- |
| 1955–59 | 2,730 | 740 | -- | -- | 406 | -- | -- |
| 1960–64 | 3,659 | 1,043 | -- | -- | 474 | -- | 11,067 |
| 1965–69 | 5,407 | 1,508 | -- | -- | 689 | -- | -- |
| 1970–74 | 6,314 | 1,502 | 2 | 0 | 1,049 | 400 | 20,427 |
| 1975–79 | 3,279 | 1,045 | 62 | 8 | 1,159 | 456 | 4,798 |
| 1980–84 | 3,172 | 816 | 268 | 27 | 1,139 | 417 | 23,059 |
| 1985–89 | -- | -- | 727 | 58 | 1,000 | 310 | 4,903 |
| 1990–94 | -- | -- | 1,393 | 122 | 1,002 | 263 | 4,097 |
| 1995–99 | -- | -- | 1,963 | 188 | 710 | 169 | 1,287 |
| 2000–04 | -- | -- | 2,006 | 175 | 753 | 107 | -- |
| 2005–09 | -- | -- | 1,060 | -- | 658 | -- | -- |
Notes: Marriages are wives’ first marriages in the Census/June CPS and 1973–1995 NSFG and all marriages in the PSID and the 2002 and 2006–10 NSFG. Dissolutions are classified by year of marriage. Dissolutions are shown only for cohorts in our hazard analysis sample.
Sources: 1960, 1970, and 1980 U.S. census (IPUMS); 1971–1995 June Current Population Survey (CPS); 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, 2002, and 2006–10 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); and 1968–2009 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).