Sexual intimacy and relationship happiness in living apart together, cohabiting, and married relationships: evidence from Britain

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Distribution of dependent variables by partnership type; Natsal-3 (2010–2012)

Emotional closeness (%)	Marrieds	Cohabitors	LATs	\({\varvec{p}}\) value (Chi-square test)
Not often	8.7	9.0	9.6	0.228
Most of the time	31.0	30.5	26.2
Always	59.8	60.4	63.9
Not answered	0.4	0.2	0.3
Compatibility in sexual interest (%)
Generally disagree	26.9	26.2	16.3	0.000
Neither agree or disagree	15.5	13.5	9.1
Agree	38.2	37.3	40.6
Agree strongly	19.1	22.8	33.7
Not answered	0.4	0.2	0.3
Compatibility in sexual preferences (%)
Generally disagree	8.5	8.2	6.5	0.000
Neither agree or disagree	14.2	11.9	11.0
Agree	53.3	53.0	48.5
Agree strongly	23.7	26.7	33.6
Not answered	0.4	0.2	0.3
Relationship happiness (%)
1. Very unhappy	8.2	6.1	7.3	0.000
2	7.2	9.5	7.7
3	6.3	7.7	10.7
4	3.0	4.7	5.6
5	8.3	8.6	10.4
6	19.7	22.9	20.8
7. Very happy	46.8	40.4	37.2
Not answered	0.3	0.2	0.3
N (unweighted)	3386	1352	1384	6572
Total %	100	100	100	100

Natsal-3, own computations, weighted results; the Chi-square tests of independence (with Rao–Scott correction) suggest that there is a significant relationship between gender and the indicators for compatibility in sexual interest, and preferences, and relationship happiness at p < 0.001