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CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY MARRIAGE AND FERTILITY SUPPLEMENT
Description:
These supplements to the June round of the Current Population Survey (conducted at five-year intervals starting in 1971) were designed to examine transitions in the American family and to measure the demographic implications of these transitions for children. The supplements ask the marital and fertility history of female respondents in the June round of CPS interviews. The respondents indicate how many times they have been married and the dates when marriages ended in widowhood or divorce. In addition, information is gathered concerning the date at which the respondent actually stopped living with his or her first spouse if that marriage had ended in divorce. Similarly, fertility histories are taken for up to the first four and last birth, and the current residential and living arrangement status of these children is ascertained.
