Measuring and Modeling Cohabitation: New Perspectives From Qualitative Data.
Almost all our knowledge about cohabitation in the United States rests on analysis of nationally representative, large-scale surveys. We move beyond this work by drawing on 115 in-depth interviews with a sample of young men and women with recent cohabitation experience. These data allow us to addres...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 989 - 1003 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
November 2005
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