Table 1.

Descriptive statistics

Birth cohort	b.1960–1964	b.1965–1969	b.1970–1974	b.1975–1979	b.1980–1984	b.1985–1989
	%| M	%| M	%| M	%| M	%| M	%| M
Among all women over age 25 (N=22,389)
Ever dissolved a union	21.2	19.6	22.8	25.6	25.3	19.2
Among women ever in a union (N = 14,211)
Frequency of dissolution
0	68.6	68.4	65.6	64.4	59.2	55.6
1	18.8	18.5	20.5	22.1	25.6	29.7
2+	12.7	13.1	13.9	13.6	15.2	14.7
Among ever married (N=9,213)
Ever divorced or separated	22.0	20.4	21.1	21.2	22.4	17.5
Among ever cohabited (N=9,635)
Ever dissolved a cohabitation	27.6	29.2	31.4	32.3	37.5	45.2
N	3,885	4,897	4,713	4,350	3,390	1,154

Note: All values are weighted; ever married and ever cohabited not mutually exclusive categories.

Source: 1995, 2002, 2006–2010, 2011–2015 NSFG