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To develop and evaluate a life status table model that tracks birth cohorts through transitions across marriage, divorce, widowhood, and mortality.

May 1, 1974DemographyOpen Access

Marriage, Divorce, and Mortality: A Life Table Analysis

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To develop and evaluate a life status table model that tracks birth cohorts through transitions across marriage, divorce, widowhood, and mortality.
Constructed an analytical life status table following birth cohorts through never-married, married, widowed, and divorced states.
Applied the model to demographic data from four Western populations, with focused analysis on 1969 California vital statistics.
California data from 1969 project that 40% of all marriages end in divorce.
Marrying males are projected to marry an average of 1 2/3 (1.67) times across their lifespans.
Every female born is expected to spend an average of 6 1/2 (6.5) years in a divorced state.

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Demographic life table analysis reveals high divorce rates and frequent remarriage in Western populations, highlighting fundamental shifts in family structure.

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Schoen et al. (1974) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a197b3ffa25ab5db6d98f0a https://doi.org/10.2307/2060563

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Demographic life table analysis reveals high divorce rates and frequent remarriage in Western populations, highlighting fundamental shifts in family structure.

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