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Winter 2014
 

Welcome

 

The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to our monthly electronic newsletter News and Notes. 

 

News and Notes aims to inform you about the activities of the NCFMR. We will update you on current research findings and trends, announce training opportunities, and provide registration details for upcoming conferences and workshops.

Single, Cohabiting, and Married Households in the U.S., 1995-2012

Married couple households are declining, whereas cohabiting couple households are on the rise. Since 1995, the share of households that are married couple headed has dropped from more than half (54%) to slightly less than half (49%). At the same time, cohabiting-couple households more than doubled, increasing from just 3% to 7% of all households. The share of single-headed households remains largely unchanged, hovering at 43% in 1995 and 45% in 2012.

 
   Source: Current Population Survey, 1995 & 2012 (IPUMS)

What's New at the NCFMR...

 


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NCFMR/BGSU Website Migration

The NCFMR is making progress on its website migration with Bowling Green State University, in addition to fixing broken links and URLs. Restructuring improves the overall usability and browsing experience long term.

The NCFMR will continue to provide intellectual leadership, shaping the direction for new research and training. We also look forward to continuing our strong program of research collaboration and development of data resources, which provide access to some of the most up to date, cutting-edge family structure research available.

 

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Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing and analyzing nationally representative data with the goal of providing the latest analysis of U.S. families.

 

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NCFMR in the News 
For a full list of NCFMR in the News items and for media links to each item, visit NCFMR in the News.
 
Just Released


  • PSID Data Releases
    • Family-level Data Files, 1968-2011
    • Cross-year Individual Data File
    • Transition into Adulthood, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011

Upcoming Events 

 


February 2014

International Teacher Education Conference (ITEC)
Dates: February 5-7

26th Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC)
Dates: February 10-11
Link to EQRC Net

Fathers & Families Coalition of America 15th Annual National Conference
Turning the Hearts of Fathers

Call for Proposals -- 2014 Groves Conference
Fracking and Families
Date Due: February 15

Call for Abstracts -- 2014 Determinants of International Migration Conference
Date Due: February 15
IOSSBR 2014 Winter International Conference
Dates: February 20-21

Request for Articles -- The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)
Severe Deprivation in America
Date Due: February 24

The University of Michigan Network on Inequality, Complexity & Health Conference
Complex Systems, Health Disparities & Population Health: Building Bridges
Dates: February 24-25
Call for Abstracts -- 2014 Add Health Users Conference
Date Due: February 28
Link to UNC Carolina Population Center

Call for Abstracts -- 12th Global Conference on Ageing
Health, Security and Community
Date Due: February 28
 

March 2014
Call for Papers -- Special Journal of Family Theory & Review
Qualitative Family Scholarship: Innovative Theories in the Interpretive Tradition
Date Due: March 1

Call for Proposals -- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
Families at the Nexus of Global Change
Date Due: March 1
Link to NCFR

Call for Abstracts -- IOSSBR
Date Due: March 3

2014 Illinois Council on Family Relations (ILCFR) Conference
Family Safety & Security 
Date: March 7

Call for Proposals -- 2014 Family Science Association (FSA) Conference
Teaching Family Science: Integration Across the Curriculum
Date Due: March 15 

2014 Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF) 21st Annual Conference
Date: March 19
Link to SRIF

Call for Applications -- RAND Summer Institute
Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging
Date Due: March 21
Annual Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education (OAGE) Conference 
The Faces of Aging: Resilience 
Date: March 28 


April 2014
IOSSBR 2014 Spring International Conference
Dates: April 10-11

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NCFMR Team

 

Codirectors

Dr. Susan L. Brown

Dr. Wendy D. Manning

 

Social Science Data Analysts

Dr. Krista Payne

Hsueh-Sheng Wu 

 

Technical Writer

Lesley Wadsworth

 

Graduate Research Assistants

Esther Lamidi 

Bart Stykes

 

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This project is supported with assistance from Bowling Green State University. From 2007 to 2013 support was also provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s) and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the state or federal government.