Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in Marital Status at Older Ages: a Multistate Lifetable Approach
Year: 2018
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Marital status is a key correlate of well-being at older ages, but we know relatively little about the time that older Americans spend in different marital statuses or how this differs by race/ethnicity and educational attainment. To address this gap in our knowledge, we use data from the Health and Retirement Study over a period of 14 years (1998–2012) to construct multistate life tables. These analyses allow us to describe the lives of older Americans between ages 65 and 90 in terms of the number of expected years of life married, divorced, widowed, and never married, reflecting both mortality and marital status transitions. Multistate lifetables, constructed separately by sex, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment, will provide a comprehensive description of sociodemographic differences in marital status across older ages in the U.S., with potential implications for differences in access to support and the exacerbation or mitigation of inequalities at older ages.
Source: Innovation in Aging
Author: J M Raymo
Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,977
OpenAlex ID: W2899995467