Department of Sociology and Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
Demography. 2021 Jun 1;58(3):811-820. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9162213.
Since June 26, 2015, marriages to same-sex couples have been legally recognized across every state in the United States, bringing new challenges to measuring relationship status in surveys. Starting in 2015 for select households and in 2017 for all households, the Current Population Survey (CPS) used a new household roster that directly identified same-sex and different-sex cohabiting and married couples. We gauge how the estimates and characteristics of same-sex couples vary according to old and new roster categories using the 2015/2016 and 2017/2018 CPS. Employing the new roster, we distinguish the sociodemographic characteristics of married and cohabiting same-sex couples. These findings have implications for the measurement of same-sex couples and our understanding of marriage among sexual minorities.
自 2015 年 6 月 26 日起，美国每个州的同性婚姻都得到了法律认可，这给调查中衡量伴侣关系状况带来了新的挑战。从 2015 年开始，针对部分家庭，以及 2017 年开始针对所有家庭，美国当前人口调查（Current Population Survey，简称 CPS）使用了新的家庭名册，直接确定了同性和异性同居及已婚伴侣。我们使用 2015/2016 年和 2017/2018 年 CPS 数据，根据新旧名册类别来评估同性伴侣的估计数和特征如何发生变化。通过使用新的名册，我们区分了已婚和同居同性伴侣的社会人口统计学特征。这些发现对同性伴侣的衡量以及我们对性少数群体中婚姻的理解具有重要意义。
