Estimating the Proportion of American Marriages That End in Divorce

1 May 1975

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research

Vol. 3 (4) , 435-460
https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417500300405

Abstract

This paper reviews and develops techniques of estimating the proportion of marriages that end in divorce which are based on disruption rates observed during a particular period of time. A source of bias in commonly used indirect estimation procedures is identified and methods of adjusting for the bias are developed. Application of the new techniques to American data of 1973 suggests that 44% of marriages would end in divorce under disruption rates of that year.

Keywords

BIAS
PROCEDURES
DISRUPTION
PROPORTION
AMERICAN
INDIRECT
END IN DIVORCE
MARRIAGES THAT END

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Marriage, Divorce, and Mortality: A Life Table Analysis
Demography, 1974