Collecting information on marital status: a methodological note
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Collecting information on marital status: a methodological note.
Marital status is often probed in epidemiological, public health, and social surveys, and has been shown to be associated with various health outcomes. However, in the past 25 years there has been a trend towards cohabitation, and higher rates of divorce and remarriage. Birth registration data also show that nearly 40% of births are outside marriage, a large proportion of which are to cohabitin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.56.3.175