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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2018 Aug;55(4):1389–1421. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0683-6

Table 8.

Harmonized Histories data sources, dates, respondent upper age limits, and sample sizes

Survey Dates
Country Data Source From To Survey Age Range Number of Women in Survey Number of Women in Analysisa Number of Unions in Analysis Number of Union Dissolutions in Analysis
Austriab Generations and Gender Survey September 2008 March 2009 18–46 3,001 772 817 93
France Generations and Gender Survey September 2005 December 2005 17–79 5,708 750 795 143
Italyc Generations and Gender Survey January 2003 December 2003 18–64 5,115 680 689 39
Norway Generations and Gender Survey January 2007 October 2008 19–81 7,541 1,050 1,142 143
Spain Spanish Fertility Survey April 2006 May 2006 16–98 9,737 1,210 1,281 70
Swedend Generations and Gender Survey April 2012 April 2013 18–79 4,991 670 710 65
United Kingdom British Household Panel Survey September 2005 May 2006 16–80 7,856 587 628 103
United Statese National Survey of Family Growth 2006–2010, 2011–2013 June 2006 December 2013 15–45 17,880 4,616 5,232 1,830

Source: Harmonized Histories manual (Perelli-Harris et al 2010a).

a

Includes 15- to 45-year-old women who have had a first union-specific birth within 10 years of the interview date.

b

We use the original Austrian GGS to estimate parental separation by age 15.

c

We obtain the month and year of birth for household children from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (http://www.istat.it/it/archivio/4967). Month of birth was not included in the Italian version of the Harmonized Histories.

d

We use the original Swedish GGS to fill in missing data on parental separation by age 15 in the Harmonized Histories.

e

The U.S. version of the Harmonized Histories is supplemented with the release of the 2011–2013 National Survey of Family Growth.