title: Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s.
abstract: The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979-2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different types of partnership, the timing of life course transitions, and the outcome of cohabitation and marriage at the fifth and tenth anniversaries.
authors: ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton.
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Beaujouan
authors: Máire
authors: M
authors: Ní Bhrolcháin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012922:Social Change; D013997:Time Factors; D006113:United Kingdom