Table 2.
Weighted Percentages of Older Adults Who Support Divorce by Year (n=1,450)
| Variable | 1994 (n=493) |
2002 (n=412) |
2012 (n=545) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic Characteristics | |||
| Marital Status | |||
| First married | 52.3 | 48.6 | 52.3 |
| Remarried | 62.8 | 56.9 | 78.3 |
| Divorced | 61.9 | 55.3 | 73.0 |
| Widowed | 62.6 | 61.0 | 63.9 |
| Never married | 44.1 | 48.7 | 44.0 |
| Gender | |||
| Women | 56.3 | 47.3 | 58.0 |
| Men | 55.7 | 60.9 | 65.8 |
| Race and Ethnicity | |||
| White | 54.4 | 52.0 | 63.4 |
| Nonwhite | 67.6 | 59.6 | 53.6 |
| Economic Resources | |||
| Education | |||
| Less than high school | 63.4 | 71.3 | 78.4 |
| High school graduate | 53.7 | 49.4 | 66.7 |
| Some college | 63.8 | 46.5 | 53.5 |
| College | 46.3 | 52.4 | 54.0 |
| Employment | |||
| Full time employment | 53.8 | 56.4 | 59.9 |
| Part time employment | 48.4 | 62.7 | 45.2 |
| Other work | 58.6 | 49.1 | 66.1 |
| Income | |||
| Quartile 1 | 56.2 | 61.0 | 65.8 |
| Quartile 2 | 61.0 | 52.0 | 58.4 |
| Quartile 3 | 46.9 | 49.3 | 66.1 |
| Quartile 4 | 55.6 | 50.3 | 60.4 |
| Social Ties | |||
| Religious attendance (median = 4) | 78.5 | 85.2 | 53.5 |
| Children | 57.0 | 52.9 | 61.3 |
| No children | 44.9 | 54.0 | 64.0 |
Analyses are weighted to correct for the complex sampling design of the GSS. Bolded coefficients are significantly different from the 2012 values, p < 0.05.