Relationship Quality

The links below provide users with information on a selection of national data sets used to measure different aspects of relationship quality, such as happiness, conflict, attitudes, and fairness. 

Each spreadsheet contains detailed information on the following...

• Question wording
• Responses
• Respondent
• Variable name
• Codebook location
• Valid responses [cross sectionally and longitudinally] or unweighted frequencies
• Examples of journal articles that have used the specific data set

• National Survey of Families and Households

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) &
  National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children & Young Adults (NLSY79 C&YA)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

• The Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study

• Three-City Study

• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)

• Marital Instability Over the Life Course

• Conceptualizing and Measuring "Healthy Marriage" for Empirical Research and Evaluation Studies: A Review of the Literature
  This literature review and annotated bibliography represent several products of Child Trends' project to review the state of the art in measuring couple relationships.
  
  
• Constructs and Articles Related to Use and Measurement
  This work represents the appendix from: Stanley, S. M. (2003, November). Assessing Couple and Marital Relationships: Beyond Form and Toward a Deeper Knowledge of Function. Paper presented at Healthy Marriage Interventions and Evaluation symposium of the Measurement Issues in Family Demography Conference, Washington, D.C.

Suggested Citation:

National Center for Family & Marriage Research. Measures Snapshots. Pilot Data: Name of Data Set. Retrieved from
http://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/measures-snapshots/relationship-quality.html