Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for women at risk for premarital serial cohabitation (ages 16–28) by birth cohort
| N = 2,425 | Birth Cohort |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–1964 | 1965–1969 | 1970–1974 | 1975–1979 | 1980–1984 | |
| (Baby Boomers) |
(Generation X) |
(Millennials) |
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| % / M | % / M | % / M | % / M | % / M | |
| Sociodemographics | |||||
| Racial/ethnic group | |||||
| non-Hispanic White | 73.2 | 68.2 | 67.0 | 66.4 | 64.0 |
| non-Hispanic Black | 11.4 | 18.1 | 16.7 | 14.2 | 18.4 |
| Hispanic | 10.7 | 7.5 | 12.2 | 14.5 | 13.7 |
| non-Hispanic Other | 4.8 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school | 9.6 | 11.2 | 12.3 | 10.1 | 10.5 |
| High school diploma or GED | 37.0 | 33.4 | 29.0 | 35.5 | 33.5 |
| Some college, associate’s degree | 26.2 | 28.3 | 33.1 | 31.9 | 39.8 |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher | 27.2 | 27.2 | 25.7 | 22.5 | 16.2 |
| Family background | |||||
| Raised with two biological parents | 61.6 | 51.1 | 52.0 | 44.7 | 47.1 |
| Relationship history | |||||
| Number of non-cohabiting sex partners (mean) | 9.8 | 8.8 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.9 |
| Childbearing experience | |||||
| Child before first cohabitation dissolution | 27.2 | 28.1 | 30.1 | 35.2 | 33.9 |
| Age at first cohabitation dissolution (mean) | 22.7 | 23.0 | 22.6 | 22.3 | 22.6 |
| N | 178 | 448 | 715 | 661 | 423 |
Note: All values are weighted.
Source: 2002, 2006–2010, and 2011–2013 National Survey of Family Growth