Beaujouan Eva, Ní Bhrolcháin Máire
ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton.
Popul Trends. 2011 Autumn(145):31-55. doi: 10.1057/pt.2011.16.
The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979-2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different types of partnership, the timing of life course transitions, and the outcome of cohabitation and marriage at the fifth and tenth anniversaries.
本文利用1979 - 2007年综合住户调查中一组连贯的回顾性历史数据，概述了几十年来英国同居和婚姻的趋势。文中呈现了男性和女性在以下方面的时间趋势：特定年龄下不同类型伴侣关系的经历、婚前同居的频率、在不同类型伴侣关系中花费的平均时间、人生历程转变的时间，以及在结婚五周年和十周年时同居和婚姻的结果。
