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 2 Distribution of dependent variables by gender

Emotional closeness (%)	Female	Male	\({\varvec{p}}\) value (Chi-square test)
Not often	10.1	7.6	0.000
Most of the time	31.9	28.7
Always	57.6	63.3
Not answered	0.4	0.3
Compatibility in sexual interest (%)			0.021
Generally disagree	27.2	23.6
Neither agree or disagree	13.2	15.5
Agree	37.3	39.3
Agree strongly	21.9	21.3
Not answered	0.3	0.3
Compatibility in sexual preferences (%)			0.000
Generally disagree	7.1	9.3
Neither agree or disagree	11.5	15.3
Agree	53.2	52.0
Agree strongly	27.8	23.0
Not answered	0.4	0.3
Relationship happiness (%)			0.001
1. Very unhappy	8.8	6.7
2	8.1	7.2
3	7.9	6.3
4	3.9	3.3
5	8.5	8.8
6	18.4	22.4
7. Very happy	44.0	45.0
Not answered	0.4	0.3
N (unweighted)	3985	2587
Total %	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 all key indicators, at p < 0.05