Indicators & Outcomes of Relationship Stability in Couples

记录稳定婚姻和高质量关系的经济和社会好处的研究解释了为什么社会科学家对长期关系稳定的指标和结果非常感兴趣。这些研究中的绝大多数只探讨异性伴侣之间的关系稳定性，许多研究使用的理论观点或明确或隐含地依赖于性别规范和角色，作为解释夫妇内部社会和经济行为的因素。包括同性伴侣的夫妻行为在内的分析提供了一个独特的机会，在没有男女性别规范和角色互动的情况下，探索关系稳定性的指标和结果。来自美国和加拿大的人口普查数据可能是唯一在这两个方面都有足够数据的数据来源 同性和异性伴侣允许在不同的配对安排上进行有效的比较。这项拟议的研究利用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，并研究同居稳定性如何影响这些特征和经济结果。 使用2000年美国人口普查5%的公共使用微数据样本(PLUMS)和2001年的 加拿大人口普查长格式数据，这项研究探索了四种耦合类型之间的关系-- 异性已婚夫妇、异性未婚伴侣(加拿大的普通法伴侣)和同性的男性和女性未婚伴侣(加拿大的普通法伴侣)--并将这些伴侣安排中的个人与他们的非同居伴侣进行比较。拟议的分析旨在解决以下具体目标： 1.构建美国和加拿大非同居个人以及不同性别和同性伴侣的人口统计和社会经济比较肖像。 2.探索稳定同居对这些人口和社会经济特征的影响，并进行比较分析，考虑不同耦合类型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关于婚姻、离婚和同性伴侣的法律承认程度的不同国家政策可能如何影响人口统计特征。

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.