Table 1.

Divorce risk (1981–2002) among individuals born 1945 or later who married between 1981 and 2002. Models control for sector of occupation (see electronic supplementary material, table S1).

		time at risk (%)		relative risks (RR)
		men	women	men	women
age at marriage (years)	16–22	5.0	14.2	1	1
	23–29	46.9	51.5	0.74	0.70
	30–39	39.4	28.1	0.67	0.67
	40 or >	8.7	6.2	0.61	0.57
residence	Copenhagen area	19.4	19.9	1	1
	rest of Denmark	80.6	80.1	0.75	0.67
highest level of education	primary	23.3	28.4	1	1
	secondary	52.2	43.9	0.71	0.66
	tertiary	24.2	27.8	0.50	0.52
parity	0	17.6	16.5	1	1
	1	26.9	25.8	0.74	0.74
	2	40.0	42.4	0.57	0.58
	3 or >	15.5	15.3	0.64	0.67
duration of marriage (years)	1	11.6	11.5	1	1
	2–3	20.5	20.4	3.73	3.53
	4–5	16.9	16.9	5.46	5.17
	6–7	13.7	13.7	5.37	4.92
	8–10	15.5	15.6	4.78	4.37
	11 or >	21.7	21.9	3.73	3.33