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In this chapter, we describe trends in educational differences for several dimensions of marriage and union formation—early marriage, nonmarital cohabitation, divorce, and husband’s education. Before presenting these figures, we describe the data used for these analyses.
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The first survey was conducted in 1940. One exception to the five-year interval is the three-year interval between the 12th (2002) and 13th (2005) surveys, a change designed to align the NFS survey years with census years. The conducting institution changed its name from the Institute of Population Problems to the National Institute of Population Problems and Social Security Research in 1996.
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The 8th survey in 1982 was the first to sample unmarried men and women, motivating our focus on the 8th to the 14th surveys.
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https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/34623 (accessed April 25, 2016).
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http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/GL02100104.do?tocd=00200521 (accessed May 15, 2016).
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There are few cases in which the difference is significantly larger than in the previous cohort but not larger than in the first cohort. We note those few cases and identify them with empty, dashed circles.
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Questionnaires for the 8th and 14th round of NFS did not distinguish divorce from widowhood, but we do not view this as particularly problematic given the very low levels of mortality prior to age 50 (the age of the oldest women in the NFS).
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Raymo, J.M., Iwasawa, M. (2017). Union Formation and Dissolution. In: Diverging Destinies. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0185-7_3
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