Indicators/Outcomes of Relationship Stability in Couples

研究记录了稳定婚姻和高质量关系的经济和社会优势，解释了为什么长期关系稳定的指标和结果引起了社会科学家的极大兴趣。这些研究中的绝大多数只探讨异性恋夫妇之间的关系稳定性，许多研究利用理论观点，或明确或隐含地依赖于性别规范和角色作为解释夫妻之间社会和经济行为的因素。分析，包括同性伴侣的耦合行为提供了一个独特的机会，探讨指标和结果的关系稳定的情况下，男性和女性的性别规范和角色的相互作用。来自美国和加拿大的人口普查数据可能是唯一的数据来源， 同性和异性伴侣，以允许在不同的耦合安排进行有效的比较。这项研究利用2000年美国人口普查数据和2001年加拿大人口普查数据来描述不同性别和同性伴侣的人口和社会经济特征，并研究共同居住的稳定性如何影响这些特征和经济成果。 使用2000年美国人口普查5%公共使用微数据样本（CNAS）和2001年 加拿大人口普查长格式数据，这项研究探讨了四种耦合类型之间的关系- 异性恋已婚夫妇，异性恋未婚伴侣（加拿大的普通法伴侣）和同性男女未婚伴侣（加拿大的普通法伴侣）-并将这些耦合安排中的个人与非同居伴侣进行比较。拟议的分析旨在实现以下具体目标： 1.构建一个人口和社会经济的比较肖像的非同居个人和异性和同性伴侣在美国和加拿大。 2.探索稳定的同居对这些人口统计学和社会经济特征的影响，并进行比较分析，考虑各种耦合类型中观察到的模式的差异。 3.比较美国和加拿大的调查结果，并考虑不同的调查方法和不同的国家政策，有关婚姻，离婚和同性伴侣的法律的承认程度可能会影响人口特征。

Studies documenting both economic and social advantages to stable marriages and quality relationships explain why the indicators and outcomes of long-term relationship stability are of great interest to social scientists. The vast majority of these studies explore relationship stability exclusively among heterosexual couples, and many utilize theoretical perspectives that either explicitly or implicitly rely upon gender norms and roles as factors that explain social and economic behavior within couples. Analyses that include coupling behavior in same-sex couples provide a unique opportunity to explore indicators and outcomes of relationship stability in the absence of the interaction of male and female gender norms and roles. Census data from both the United States and Canada are probably the only data sources with sufficient data on both same-sex and different-sex couples to permit valid comparisons across varying coupling arrangements. The proposed study utilizes 2000 US Census data and 2001 Canadian Census data to describe the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of different-sex and same-sex couples and examine how co-residential stability affects these characteristics and economic outcomes. Using both the 2000 US Census 5-percent Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) and the 2001 Canadian Census long-form data, this study explores relationships among four coupling types-- heterosexual married couples, heterosexual unmarried partners (common-law partners in Canada), and same-sex male and female unmarried partners (common-law partners in Canada)--and compares individuals in these coupling arrangements with their non-cohabiting counterparts. The proposed analyses are designed to address the following specific aims: 1. Construct a demographic and socio-economic comparative portrait of non-cohabiting individuals and different-sex and same-sex couples in the United States and Canada. 2. Explore the effects of stable cohabitation on these demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and conduct comparative analyses that consider differences in observed patterns across various coupling types. 3. Compare findings for the United States and Canada and consider how differing survey methodology and different national policies relating to marriage, divorce, and the extent of legal recognition of same-sex couples might affect demographic characteristics.