What's New at the NCFMR...

The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.

NCFMR Releases New Family Profiles Series

The NCFMR is pleased to announce the release of a series of family profiles focusing on new findings about U.S. families. These profiles are the latest in the Center's series of marriage and divorce data resources using the 2010 ACS data.

*View First Marriage Rate in the U.S., 2010 (FP-11-12) Family Profile  

*View Marriage Data Resources by Topic 

*View Divorce Data Resources by Topic 

Just Released Data Resources

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing the latest statistics on U.S. families.

• First Marriage Rate in the U.S., 2010 (FP-11-12) 
• On the Road to Adulthood: Sequencing of Family Experiences (FP-11-11) 
• Fatherhood in the U.S.: Number of Children, 1987-2010 (FP-11-10)  

Data Points

Tables and figures integrating statistics and demographic perspectives designed to investigate the links between marriage and family well-being at all stages of the life course.

• Multigenerational Family Households 

The Data Source

Documents describing newly released data sets used by the family research community.

• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (TDS-11-07) 

Working Paper Series

A collection of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students.  

• Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach
• Couple Disagreement in Reporting on Courtship Stages: Implications for Measurement and Marital Outcomes (WP-11-05) 

• View Working Paper Series webpage 

NCFMR in the News

NCFMR Research Team Finds Education and Race Tied to Divorce Rate

• View BGSU Online Media Room
• View NCFMR in the News webpage for a list of media outlets showcasing NCFMR research 
• View First Divorce Rate, 2010 (FP-11-09) 

 

New Research Finds College Educated Women are More Likely to Marry 

 

Research by Krista Payne, social science data analyst, and Larry Gibbs, graduate research assistant, has found that educational attainment is positively associated with marriage. Additionally, this finding spans all racial and ethnic groups with a college degree.  

 

First Marriage Rate for 1,000 Never-married Women Aged 18 and Older by Educational Attainment

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010   

• View work by former grantees...
• Paula Fomby 
• Heather Bachman   
• Patricia Pendry 
• View Pendry's NCFR presentation 

• View work by former graduate research fellow...
• Lauren Rinelli McClain 

• View Brown's seminar presented as a PDF  

Upcoming Events

December 2011

Request for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

Open to NPC Research Affiliates and Other Poverty Researchers 

Date Due: December 1

Link to NPC 

Call for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

2012 Visiting Scholars Program

Date Due: December 2

Link to NPC 

Call for Papers -- International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences  

Date Due: December 13

Link to Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 

Fellowships in Public Policy Available for 2012-2013 -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 

Date Due: December 15

Link to SRCD 

Call for Submissions -- International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)

Date Due: December 15

Link to IARR 

Call for Abstracts -- Second International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology

Children's Voices, Well-Being and Social Justice

Date Due: December 15

Link to ISA 

Call for Applications -- Population Association of America (PAA) Fellowship Opportunity

Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 

Date Due: December 15

Link to PAA 

Call for Abstracts -- Asian Population Association (APA) Conference

Date Due: December 15

Link to APA 

Call for Applications -- Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Training Program

Building Careers for Research in Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence

Date Due: December 15

Link to Washington University in St. Louis 

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report

Military Families 

Date Due: December 21

Contact nancygonzalez@ncfr.org to obtain submission guidelines

January 2012

Request for Proposals -- Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality (CPI) New Scholars Grant Competition

Call for Papers -- American Sociological Association 2012 Annual Meeting

Real Utopias: Emancipatory Projects, Institutional Designs, Possible Futures

Date Due: January 11

Link to ASA 

Call for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012

Date Due: January 13

Link to NPC 

Call for Applications -- Population Council 

Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program  

Date Due: January 15

Link to Population Council 

Request for Applications -- 2012 NIH Director's Early Independence Awards Program

Date Due: January 30

Link to The NIH Common Fund 

February 2011

Call for Applications -- Family Process Institute

2012 New Writers Fellowship

Date Due: February 15

Link to Family Process Org 

Link to Call for Family Process New Writers Fellows PDF  

13th Annual National Fatherhood and Families Conference

Fathers & Families Coalition of America

Dates: February 21-24

Link to Fathers & Families Coalition of America