title: Availability of marriage partners in England and Wales: a comparison of three measures.
abstract: Measures of partner availability introduced by Goldman, Westoff & Hammerslough (1984) and by Veevers (1988) are described and a new measure of partner availability, the Iterated Availability Ratio, is introduced. The three measures are applied to 1981 Census data for England and Wales and their abilities to predict regional variations in age-specific marriage rates are compared.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lampard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012744:Sex Ratio; D014852:Wales / Q000453:epidemiology