IPUMS Center for Data Integration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Institute for Behavioral Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
Demography. 2021 Dec 1;58(6):2029-2040. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9510524.
Identification of individuals in same-sex relationships in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is of increasing interest to the research community. While the ATUS interviews one person per household, by using information about who else lives in the household, researchers can easily identify respondents in coresident same-sex couple arrangements. Previous research has outlined two approaches to identifying individuals in same-sex relationships in the ATUS that use information on the sex of household members. We extend that work in this research note by using additional information collected from a direct question to identify unmarried cohabiting partners in the Current Population Survey (CPS). We identify 23% more individuals in cohabiting same-sex relationships when we use the CPS direct question information than when we use information from the ATUS alone. We argue that this identification strategy is more inclusive of individuals in same-sex cohabiting relationships.
在美国家庭时间调查（ATUS）中识别同性伴侣关系中的个体越来越引起研究界的兴趣。虽然 ATUS 每次只采访一个家庭中的一个人，但通过使用有关谁与家庭同住的信息，研究人员可以轻松识别核心居住的同性伴侣关系中的受访者。以前的研究已经概述了两种方法，即使用有关家庭成员性别的信息来识别 ATUS 中的同性伴侣关系中的个体。在本研究说明中，我们通过使用从直接问题中收集的其他信息来扩展该工作，以识别当前人口调查（CPS）中的未婚同居伴侣。当我们使用 CPS 直接问题信息时，我们识别出的处于同居关系中的同性伴侣关系中的个体比仅使用 ATUS 信息时多了 23%。我们认为这种识别策略更能包容处于同性同居关系中的个体。
