AVAILABILITY OF MARRIAGE PARTNERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES - A COMPARISONOF 3 MEASURES

Authors
LAMPARD R
Citation
R. Lampard, AVAILABILITY OF MARRIAGE PARTNERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES - A COMPARISONOF 3 MEASURES, Journal of Biosocial Science, 25(3), 1993, pp. 333-350
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Biomedical",Demografy,"Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Journal of Biosocial Science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00219320
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
333 - 350
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9320(1993)25:3<333:AOMPIE>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Measures of partner availability introduced by Goldman, Westoff & Hamm erslough (1984) and by Veevers (1988) are described and a new measure of partner availability, the Iterated Availability Ratio, is introduce d. The three measures are applied to 1981 Census data for England and Wales and their abilities to predict regional variations in age-specif ic marriage rates are compared.