Appendix Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics by Racial Pairing and Union Type among Married and Cohabiting Couples, 2008–2017
| Percent of Total | Age |
Percent College or More |
Percent Foreign Born |
Percent First Married |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Racial/Ethnic Pairing | Total | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |
| Married couples in which women are 15–50 years old, married 0–4 years ago | ||||||||||
| White couples | 413,721 | 59.2 | 33.9 | 31.4 | 36.6 | 44.0 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 73.2 | 73.9 |
| Black couples | 37,297 | 7.4 | 36.8 | 33.8 | 21.8 | 29.6 | 20.0 | 18.3 | 71.0 | 77.8 |
| American Indian couples | 2,789 | 0.3 | 34.2 | 31.9 | 9.5 | 13.2 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 73.3 | 73.6 |
| Asian American couples | 32,290 | 5.2 | 33.9 | 30.6 | 68.1 | 68.2 | 81.5 | 80.0 | 88.2 | 90.8 |
| Hispanic couples | 73,699 | 13.7 | 33.1 | 30.6 | 11.0 | 14.3 | 64.5 | 59.8 | 82.0 | 82.4 |
| White husband-Black wife couples | 3,894 | 0.6 | 35.1 | 32.2 | 34.6 | 38.0 | 9.2 | 18.1 | 71.6 | 77.9 |
| Black husband-White wife couples | 8,288 | 1.4 | 34.9 | 31.9 | 25.5 | 33.2 | 13.3 | 6.8 | 73.3 | 74.4 |
| White husband-American Indian wife couples | 3,840 | 0.6 | 34.4 | 32.1 | 21.8 | 26.5 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 64.3 | 64.3 |
| American Indian husband-White wife couples | 3,845 | 0.5 | 34.3 | 31.5 | 20.6 | 29.2 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 65.3 | 66.6 |
| White husband-Asian American wife couples | 13,930 | 2.0 | 38.1 | 33.4 | 57.2 | 64.0 | 9.5 | 64.1 | 70.7 | 80.0 |
| Asian American husband-White wife couples | 5,676 | 0.8 | 33.6 | 31.2 | 63.8 | 63.6 | 44.4 | 9.1 | 84.7 | 83.7 |
| White husband-Hispanic wife couples | 22,087 | 3.4 | 34.4 | 31.7 | 36.0 | 37.7 | 7.5 | 28.8 | 73.2 | 74.5 |
| Hispanic husband-White wife couples | 20,568 | 3.2 | 33.0 | 30.8 | 28.1 | 39.4 | 29.1 | 7.2 | 76.8 | 76.5 |
| Minority-minority couples | 10,397 | 1.7 | 34.4 | 31.7 | 29.2 | 35.7 | 22.8 | 31.5 | 75.7 | 78.4 |
| Total | 652,321 | 100.0 | 34.1 | 31.5 | 33.4 | 39.7 | 20.3 | 20.4 | 75.1 | 76.6 |
| Cohabiting couples in which women are 15–50 years old, cohabiting at time of survey | ||||||||||
| White couples | 142,948 | 51.0 | 29.5 | 27.5 | 28.7 | 35.6 | 3.0 | 2.8 | ||
| Black couples | 21,208 | 10.7 | 32.7 | 30.5 | 9.4 | 15.6 | 8.0 | 7.3 | ||
| American Indian couples | 2,797 | 0.6 | 31.9 | 29.8 | 4.2 | 7.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||
| Asian American couples | 4,662 | 1.7 | 31.8 | 29.8 | 46.1 | 47.9 | 62.8 | 62.5 | ||
| Hispanic couples | 41,998 | 18.8 | 32.4 | 30.5 | 5.2 | 7.4 | 65.8 | 62.3 | ||
| White man-Black woman couples | 1,953 | 0.8 | 29.9 | 27.9 | 22.5 | 27.1 | 5.3 | 8.2 | ||
| Black man-White woman couples | 6,329 | 2.7 | 31.3 | 28.7 | 15.3 | 22.5 | 5.3 | 2.7 | ||
| White man-American Indian woman couples | 1,716 | 0.6 | 29.0 | 27.1 | 17.2 | 19.1 | 2.2 | 1.4 | ||
| American Indian man-White woman couples | 1,605 | 0.6 | 29.5 | 27.3 | 14.9 | 20.8 | 1.1 | 2.0 | ||
| White man-Asian American woman couples | 4,376 | 1.5 | 30.6 | 28.9 | 55.4 | 63.2 | 7.8 | 38.5 | ||
| Asian American man-White woman couples | 2,498 | 0.9 | 30.6 | 28.4 | 54.0 | 55.8 | 35.4 | 5.4 | ||
| White man-Hispanic woman couples | 8,786 | 3.3 | 29.4 | 27.6 | 28.4 | 31.7 | 4.2 | 14.5 | ||
| Hispanic man-White woman couples | 10,259 | 4.0 | 29.6 | 27.5 | 20.1 | 28.9 | 19.9 | 3.3 | ||
| Minority-minority couples | 6,545 | 2.8 | 30.4 | 28.3 | 18.4 | 23.6 | 14.5 | 17.1 | ||
| Total | 257,680 | 100.0 | 30.5 | 28.5 | 21.8 | 27.4 | 17.8 | 16.9 | ||
Note: Percentages are weighted and total counts are not weighted.