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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 3 USA: percent cohabiting among women 25–29 in union, 1990–2011, by race and education

From: The second demographic transition, 1986–2020: sub-replacement fertility and rising cohabitation—a global update

 

Census 1990

Census 2000

ACS 2007–2011

White non-Hispanic

9.9

16.1

23.2

Black

16.7

23.5

31.1

Hispanic

9.8

13.7

21.9

Less than complete high school (LSH)

13.6

16.2

24.3

High school or some college (HS or SC)

9.9

16.4

24.4

BA or higher

9.7

15.3

20.5

Total

10.3

16.0

22.9

  1. Lesthaeghe et al. (2016): authors tabulations based on the Censuses and American Community Survey samples from the IPUMS-USA database