Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note.

ABSTRACT: Since the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that marriages of same-sex couples are legal in all states in the union, federal surveys have adapted to the shifting legal climate and included new measures that more directly identify same-sex and different-sex cohabiting and married couples. In this research note comparing the largest and most recent federal surveys-the 2019 American Community Survey and Current Population Survey-we find consistent levels of cohabitation and marriage across surveys. While the vast majority (90%) of different-sex couples were married, we report a more even split in cohabitation and marriage among same-sex couples. Our evaluation of sociodemographic characteristics of married and cohabiting couples indicates that differences were less prominent among same-sex coupl

SUBMITTER: Manning WD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10521899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature