Original Data

Original data collections sponsored and coordinated by the NCFMR and available for public use. These original data contribute to innovative research and aid in the development of questionnaires for other data collection efforts.

Familial Responses to Financial Instability

A series of studies conducted by Knowledge Networks on behalf of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research. Each study in this series examines the impact of economic factors on family and household relationships.

Familial Responses to Financial Instability data

Married and Cohabiting Couples

A nationally representative sample of U.S. married and cohabiting adults aged 18-64 collected in 2010. Data are available for 1,504 married individuals representing 752 married couples and 646 cohabiting individuals representing 323 couples and include basic demographic characteristics, such as age, income, educational attainment, gender, and race, and individual and couple-level data.

Married and Cohabiting Couples data

Survey of Criminal Justice Experience

Household survey of the criminal justice experiences of United States adults ages 18-64 collected in 2013. Data are available for 3,260 individuals aged 18-64. Measures capture supervision (e.g. probation, jail, and prison) and broader experiences such as arrests and convictions. Researchers are able to estimate 12-month and life-time prevalence rates of respondents' criminal justice experiences. Demographic variables cover: age, race, sex, income, regions, education, marital status, employment status, and housing type.

Survey of Criminal Justice Experience data

The Marriage, Divorce, & Birth Data Compass

A county and state administrative marriage, divorce, and birth data archive. Marriage and divorce data cover varying geographies and time frames spanning from 1867 through 2022 and birth data covers varying geographies from 1982 through 2024.

The Marriage, Divorce, & Birth Data Compass