MARITAL INSTABILITY AMONG HISPANICS

拟议研究的主要目标是调查 比较视角、流行率、时间模式和决定因素 这项研究的重点是美国拉美裔美国人的婚姻不稳定 将针对墨西哥裔美国人、波多黎各人和古巴人， 与盎格鲁人(非西班牙裔白人)和黑人进行的其他比较 人口。本研究的具体目标如下：(1) 确定婚姻不稳定的流行率存在于每个 三个西班牙裔群体之间的比较，以及与黑人和 Anglos在1960年、1970年和1980年；(2)估计具体的影响 影响婚姻不稳定的人口和社会经济决定因素 (3)分析婚姻状况的变化。 1960年至1980年期间的不稳定，区分了拉美裔；以及(4) 来测试对西班牙文化的依恋可能在多大程度上 不同程度的婚姻解体。 数据来源将是1960年、1970年和1980年公共使用微观数据文件 可从当年的十年一次的人口普查中获得；即，1960年和 1970年公共使用样本(PU)和1980年公共使用微观数据样本 (Pums-A)。所有曾结过婚的墨西哥裔美国人、波多黎各人和古巴人 两个人中有一个和十分之一的黑人和 英国人将分别构成样本。规模的大小 婚姻不稳定的决定因素和变化的净影响 时间将通过使用对数线性技术来指定，这些技术 与标准回归相比，更适合于这类数据 程序。 婚姻状况显然是家庭和家庭的一个关键和决定性的特征 家庭结构，这一分析应该对我们的 对美国家庭结构的巨大变化的理解 在过去的二十年里。

The major objective of the proposed research is to investigate, in comparative perspective, the prevalence, temporal patterns and determinants of marital instability among Hispanics in the U.S. The focus of the study will be on the Mexican American, Puerto Rican and Cuban populations, with additional comparisons drawn with the Anglo (non-Hispanic white) and black populations. The research has the following specific aims: (1) To ascertain the prevalence of marital instability that exists among each of the three Hispanic groups as compared to each other and to blacks and Anglos in 1960, 1970 and 1980; (2) To estimate the effects of specific demographic and socioeconomic determinants of marital instability affecting the racial/ethnic groups of interest; (3) To analyze the changes in marital instability over the 1960-1980 interval that distinguish Hispanics; and (4) To test the extent to which attachment to Hispanic culture may account for different levels of marital dissolution. The data source will be the 1960, 1970 and 1980 Public Use micro-data files available from the decennial censuses in those years; i.e., the 1960 and 1970 Public Use Samples (PUS) and the 1980 Public Use Micro-Data Samples (PUMS-A). All ever-married Mexican American, Puerto Rican and Cuban persons together with a one in two and a one in ten sample of black and Anglo persons, respectively, will comprise the sample. The magnitude of the net effects of determinants of marital instability and of changes over time will be specified through the use of log-linear techniques that are more appropriate for data of this sort than are standard regression procedures. Marital status is obviously a crucial and defining feature of household and family structure, and this analysis should contribute substantially to our understanding of the massive structural changes in the American family over the past two decades.