Table 1.
Family Outcomes by Education
| High school graduate, no college | Some college or associate’s degree | College degree or higher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979: Marriage Outcomes by Age 46 (Aughinbaugh et al., 2013)a – Birth cohorts 1957–1964 | |||
| Percent ever married | 87.0 | 87.1 | 89.0 |
| Among those who married: | |||
| Percent ever divorced | 49.1 | 48.5 | 29.8 |
| Percent still in first marriage | 48.6 | 48.9 | 69.0 |
| National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health: Family structure by age 28–32b – Birth cohorts 1976–1984 | |||
| Percent Currently Married | 45.0 | 45.8 | 48.2 |
| Percent Currently Cohabiting | 21.5 | 19.1 | 14.2 |
| Percent 2+ co-residential unions | 42.1 | 39.5 | 19.3 |
| Percent Unmarried mother | 32.2 | 26.7 | 8.4 |
| Percent Unpartnered mother | 17.8 | 16.4 | 5.8 |
Source: Aughinbaugh, Alison, Omar Robles, and Hugette Sun. 2013. “Marriage and Divorce: Patterns by Gender, Race, and Educational Attainment.” Monthly Labor Review. http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorce-patterns-by-gender-race-and-educational-attainment.htm.
Source: Authors’ tabulation from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Add Health is a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.