Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 7 Family Status Composition, for matched couples living at coordinates with exactly 2 people total

From: Identifying couples in administrative dataIdentifizierung von Ehepaaren in Administrativen Daten

	Different sex				Same sex
	Age diff <15		Age diff ≥15		Age diff <15		Age diff ≥15
Combinations	Absolute	Percent (%)	Absolute	Percent (%)	Absolute	Percent (%)	Absolute	Percent (%)
Alone-alone	1228	0.54	1504	2.08	2385	14.38	1278	2.01
Alone-missing	9956	4.42	30,437	41.99	10,765	64.92	27,634	43.44
Alone-cohabit	412	0.18	624	0.86	338	2.04	542	0.85
Alone-single parent	293	0.13	1922	2.65	95	0.57	1864	2.93
Alone-married	1170	0.52	4106	5.67	280	1.69	3840	6.04
Cohabit-cohabit	431	0.19	226	0.31	132	0.80	213	0.33
Cohabit-missing	1742	0.77	3622	5.00	903	5.45	3537	5.56
Cohabit-single parent	98	0.04	1103	1.52	13	0.08	1136	1.79
Cohabit-married	915	0.41	1118	1.54	39	0.24	1122	1.76
Single parent-single parent	22	0.01	8	0.01	15	0.09	40	0.06
Single parent-missing	1595	0.71	4420	6.10	339	2.04	4154	6.53
Single parent-married	357	0.16	212	0.29	11	0.07	223	0.35
Married-married	47,922	21.25	1404	1.94	77	0.46	211	0.33
Married-missing	159,344	70.67	21,774	30.04	1190	7.18	17,816	28.01
Both missing	1,466,577	–	326,445	–	67,477	–	302,644	–
Total	1,692,062	–	398,925	–	84,059	–	366,254	–

Includes all couples who we were able to match by location and name (according to our name-matching algorithm), restricted to couples living at coordinates where no other people are listed. Only individuals who are registered as job-seekers have the family status variable filled in

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