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family.structure (in Demographics)

Variable Summary Undergrad Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
Sexually active students: Undergrad Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
Casual-sexually active students: Undergrad Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

What is the current relationship between your biological or adoptive parents?

This variable, family.structure, is used in the construction of the variable, age.parents.separated.

students (family_structure)
 All RsFemaleMale
Parents married 16221 67.76% 10937 66.60% 5231 70.30%
Parents cohabitating 181 0.76% 129 0.79% 51 0.69%
Parents divorced 5024 20.99% 3547 21.60% 1465 19.69%
Parents separated 565 2.36% 409 2.49% 151 2.03%
Parents never married 938 3.92% 712 4.34% 224 3.01%
Mother is a widow 724 3.02% 487 2.97% 234 3.14%
Father is a widower 287 1.20% 200 1.22% 85 1.14%
Missing 191
(0.79%)
58
(0.35%)
20
(0.27%)
Total 24131 100% 16479 100% 7461 100%

Parents married        Parents cohabitating        Parents divorced        Parents separated        Parents never married        Mother is a widow        Father is a widower
5124, 3209, 2463, 2289, 353
2037, 1426, 1155, 979, 215
Parents married        Parents cohabitating        Parents divorced        Parents separated        Parents never married        Mother is a widow        Father is a widower
3534, 2040, 1594, 1476, 215
1496, 894, 727, 615, 129

These graphs reflect only undergraduates attending 4-year colleges who are of normative age -- 18, 19, 20, 21, or 22, +/- 1, for freshman, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and later undergraduates, respectively. Solid lines represent women. Dotted lines represent men.

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