Measurement

Original Data

• County-Level Marriage & Divorce Data 2000
• Pilot Data Collection 2009 Familial Responses to Financial Instability
• Pilot Data 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples

Family Profiles

• FP-13-04
  General Marriage Rate and General Divorce Rate, 2008: A Comparison of ACS & NVS Data    
• FP-11-01
  U.S. Families and Households: Economic Well-being    
• FP-10-08
  Same-Sex Couple Households in the U.S., 2009

Measures Snapshots

• Child Well-being
• Family Structure
• Incarceration
• Older Adult Family Relationships
• Pilot Data Collection 2009 Familial Responses to Financial Instability
• Monitoring the Future
• Relationship Quality
• Religion and Spirituality

Question Crosswalks

• Same Sex Relationships
  
• Cohabitation
• Marriage and Remarriage
• Separation, Divorce, and Union Dissolution
• Family Structure and Instability
• Family Ties Across Households
  

Working Papers & Publications

• WP-10-08
  Dew, J., & Xiao, J. J. (2010). "Financial Behavior Scale: Development and Validation."
  Recipient of the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning "2011 Outstanding Journal Article Award."
  • Published in Journal of Financial Therapy.
    • Dew, J., & Xiao, J. J. 2013. "Financial Declines, Financial Behaviors, and Relationship Satisfaction During the Recession." Journal of Financial Therapy, 4(1), 2013.
  • Published in Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning.
    • Dew, J., & Xiao, J. J. 2011. "Financial Behavior Scale: Development and Validation." Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 22(1), 19-35.

• WP-09-04
  Rinelli, L. N. (2009). "Father Involvement Over Time and Differences by Union Status: A Comparison of Mother and Father Reports."
• WP-08-01
  Rinelli, L. N. (2008, October). "Cohabitation: Parents following in their Children’s Footsteps?"
  
  • Published in Sociological Inquiry 81(2): 260-271 (2011).
    

Research Briefs

• RB-09-01
  Rinelli, L. (2009). The Coparenting Relationship: Key to Strengthening Fragile Families.
  
  

Conference Posters and Presentations

• View Poster
  Balistreri, K., Manning, W., & Brown, S. (2009). New Family Measures: An Examination of Direct Measures of Cohabitation and Parent Pointers. Poster presented at the Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI (April/May).      
• Dew, J., & Xiao, J. J. (2010). Measuring Financial Behaviors. Poster presented at the Financial Therapy Association Conference, Manhattan, KS (September).    
• WP-10-08
  Dew, J., & Xiao, J. J. (2010). Financial Behavior Scale: Development and Validation. Paper presented at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research Pilot Data Conference, Bowling Green State University, OH (June).      
• Dew, J., & Xiao, J. J. (2010). The Association Between Family Financial Declines, Financial Behaviors, and Relationship Satisfaction During the Recession. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Council on Consumer Interests, Washington, DC (April).      
• Rinelli, L. N. (2009). A Comparison of Mother and Father Reports of Father Involvement. Paper presented at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2009 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI (April).
   

NCFMR Events

• Counting Couples, Counting Families 2011 NCFMR Research Conference
  

Other Data Resources

• Family and Marriage Literature Reviews
• The Bookshelf