Marriage and Divorce Data Compass

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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research with the Center for Family & Demographic Research present the Marriage and Divorce Data Compass, a county-level administrative data archive of marriages and divorces in the United States. We provide researchers with data to examine geographic concentrations of marriages and divorces for 3,000 counties in the U.S. spanning 143 years (available data fall between the years 1867 through 2010). Data can be used in combination with other county-level data sets to examine geographic variation or be merged with individual-level data sets as measures of social and community context.

The Marriage and Divorce Data Compass has been made possible from support from the following:

  • National Science Foundation under Grant No. SES-1003960 to Jennifer Glass at the University of Iowa with data collection assistance provided by Philip Levchak.
  • National Institutes of Health under Grant No. 5R03HD078653 to Wendy D. Manning at Bowling Green State University.
  • National Institutes of Health under Grant No. 5R03HD091474 to Wendy D. Manning at Bowling Green State University.
  • National Institutes of Health under Grant No. 5R03HD103830 to Krista K. Westrick-Payne at Bowling Green State University.
  • National Center for Family & Marriage Research, 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)
  • Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University, which has core funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD050959).

Updated: 05/25/2022 03:17PM