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- Title
Race-Ethnic Differences in the Non-marital Fertility Rates in 2006-2010.
- Authors
Kim, Yujin; Raley, R.
- Abstract
Research in the 1980s pointed to the lower marriage rates of blacks as an important factor contributing to race differences in non-marital fertility. Our analyses update and extend this prior work to investigate whether cohabitation has become an important contributor to this variation. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to identify the relative contribution of population composition (i.e., percent sexually active single and percent cohabiting) versus rates (pregnancy rates, post-conception marriage rates) to race-ethnic variation in non-marital fertility rates ( N = 7,428). We find that the pregnancy rate among single (not cohabiting) women is the biggest contributor to race-ethnic variation in the non-marital fertility rate and that contraceptive use patterns among racial minorities explain the majority of the race-ethnic differences in pregnancy rates.
- Subjects
ETHNIC differences; HUMAN fertility; MARITAL statistics; HISPANIC Americans; UNMARRIED couples; CONTRACEPTIVES
- Publication
Population Research & Policy Review, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
0167-5923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11113-014-9342-9