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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2022 Jan 21;84(2):673–684. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12819

Table 1.

Percentage Supporting Co-residence by Survey Decade and 10-year Age Categories

Age Categories
Survey Decade 18 to 29 30 to 39 40 to 49 50 to 59 60 to 69 70 to 79 80 to 89+
1970s 45.4% 37.4% 33.5% 33.6% 26.0% 23.9% 22.1%
1980s 57.6% 53.2% 47.7% 42.9% 30.2% 28.6% 24.5%
1990s 59.9% 53.9% 50.2% 42.0% 33.9% 21.3% 23.6%
2000s 56.2% 56.6% 55.6% 50.1% 40.2% 30.5% 25.1%
2010s 59.8% 57.3% 60.6% 61.6% 50.3% 40.8% 39.0%
Total 56.2% 52.8% 50.8% 47.6% 36.9% 29.3% 28.2%

Data: General Social Survey, 1973 to 2018, Weighted, N=36,843. Darker=more supportive of co-residence.