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Papers by John C Haskey
Population trends, 2005
This article explores the subject of 'living apart together' (LAT). LAT is a relationship... more This article explores the subject of 'living apart together' (LAT). LAT is a relationship in which the two partners regard themselves as a couple but they are not co-residentially cohabiting. The phenomenon of 'living apart together' is difficult to measure but has become increasingly recognised in international sociological and demographic literature. However, in Great Britain there has so far been little research of this subject and no attempt, until now, to estimate its extent.
Population trends, 2005
The addition of 2001 Census data to the ONS Longitudinal Study extends the range of research topi... more The addition of 2001 Census data to the ONS Longitudinal Study extends the range of research topics that this unique data resource can support. Census questions on religion, care-giving and self-rated health that were asked for the first time in 2001 and the repetition of 1991 questions on limiting long-standing illness and ethnicity raise opportunities for new longitudinal investigation in these areas. This article describes how new 2001 methodologies including data imputation, the One Number Census and de jure enumeration affect the LS database. The support service for existing and prospective LS users is described.
Population trends, 2001
This article first considers some information from a pilot survey to test questions on past cohab... more This article first considers some information from a pilot survey to test questions on past cohabiting unions which did not lead to marriage: when they started and finished; the reason why the couple stopped living together (either because the relationship ended, or because they stopped sharing the same accommodation, or both), and the corresponding durations. The article also analyses the key characteristics and immediate past accommodation history of couples who are currently cohabiting. In particular, patterns of tenure, property ownership and length of time cohabiting are explored--from a family law perspective.
Population trends, 1999
This article describes the derivation of a new set of population estimates of those cohabiting in... more This article describes the derivation of a new set of population estimates of those cohabiting in England and Wales in 1996. As well as estimating the population cohabiting by age and sex, the estimates have also been made by legal marital status. The article then discusses new projections to the year 2021, based on these estimates.
Population trends, 1998
This article analyses a number of aspects of lone parenthood. First, it updates the estimated nat... more This article analyses a number of aspects of lone parenthood. First, it updates the estimated national numbers of one-parent families and dependent children living in them. The article then considers the composition of lone parents by their marital status and examines the family sizes of lone parent families and couple families, as well as contrasting the different age profiles of the different kinds of lone parent. Specially commissioned survey data on the marital and cohabitational histories of lone mothers, married mothers and cohabiting mothers are analysed to give a picture of their differing patterns of past partnerships. The article also investigates the people present in lone parent households in terms of their relationship to the lone parent.
Population trends, 1996
This article provides estimates of the proportions of marriages which ended in divorce for the di... more This article provides estimates of the proportions of marriages which ended in divorce for the different groups of couples who have married since the 1950s. Over one quarter of all couples who married in the late 1970s and early 1980s had divorced by the end of 1994. As well as giving the overall proportion of couples married in a given year who subsequently divorced, estimates are provided of the corresponding proportions for different subsets of those couples--according to each partner's marital status before marriage, and age at marriage. For some of the higher risk groups--bachelors and spinsters who married as teenagers and divorced men and women who remarried in their early twenties--the proportions who had divorced by 1994 had reached over 40 per cent, and in some cases just over 50 per cent, amongst those who had married between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. Finally, a life table analysis is carried out to estimate the proportion of marriages which would end in divorc...
Population trends, 1994
This article gives the final estimate of the number of one-parent families in Great Britain in 19... more This article gives the final estimate of the number of one-parent families in Great Britain in 1991--1.3 million--and a provisional estimate--of 1.4 million--for 1992. It also estimates that there were 2.2 million dependent children living in one-parent families in 1991, and provides a provisional estimate for 1992 of 2.3 million. Overall, in 1992, about one in five families with dependent children was a one-parent family and about one in five of all dependent children lived in a one-parent family. The article also examines the family sizes of one-parent families; the profiles by marital status of both lone mothers and lone fathers; the ages of lone parents and of their dependent children, and the geographical variation in the prevalence of lone parenthood within Great Britain in 1991. Finally, census data on the family composition of households are examined to investigate the extent to which lone parent families live in multi-family households, and the relationship between the lone...
Journal of Applied Statistics, 1988
ABSTRACT The addresses of marriage partners just before their marriage were extracted from the ma... more ABSTRACT The addresses of marriage partners just before their marriage were extracted from the marriage entries of a representative sample of marriages solemnised in England and Wales during 1979. The relative orientation of each marriage was calculated, and for marriages which ranged over 10 kilometres, the angles were found to follow a von Mises distribution with a ‘Preferred direction’ along an axis which was approximately North West/South East. Further investigation, using a combinatorial method, strongly suggests that the phenomenon is largely due to the geographical distribution of persons eligible to marry.
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1986
SummaryThis paper examines the social and demographic features of divorcing couples by the ground... more SummaryThis paper examines the social and demographic features of divorcing couples by the grounds on which their decrees are made absolute and by the party granted the divorce. The demographic characteristics include ages at marriage and at divorce of husbands and of wives granted decrees, duration of marriage, number of children, and the social class of both the husband and the wife. The data are also analysed for particular categories of couples: those in which the wife is a housewife, couples where the husband is unemployed, couples who have a child which was pre-maritally conceived, and couples who have dependent children. There are clear and interesting differences in the demographic characteristics of couples who successfully petition on the various grounds, suggesting that the law is used in different ways by different couples. Reasons for the observed patterns are considered. The data provide some basis for assessing the possible repercussions on divorce of socioeconomic ch...
Trends in three basic measures of completed fertility, based on survey responses from both men an... more Trends in three basic measures of completed fertility, based on survey responses from both men and women on their historical childbearing and fathering, by the respondents’ partnership histories, are analysed using the technique of ‘the concentration of reproduction’ – which has not previously been applied in this particular context. The trajectories, by successive birth cohort, of the concentrations of reproduction, are traced separately for men and for women, and by their different partnership histories. The trajectory for men is found to be larger than that for women for more recent cohorts, largely due to the increased proportions of men reporting not to have fathered any children, but also more generally suggesting a wider variability in men’s fatherings. Corresponding analyses are presented for three main types of partnership histories, for those with: only direct marriages; only or mainly pre-marital cohabitations; and only or mainly non-premarital cohabitations. The trajecto...
Minority Populations, 1992
Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600-2012, 2000
Population trends
Saturday is the most popular day to marry: two thirds of all marriages in England and Wales take ... more Saturday is the most popular day to marry: two thirds of all marriages in England and Wales take place then. However, Saturday marriages are not so popular as they were-in 1979, over three quarters of weddings were solemnised on Saturdays. Civil marriages are seven times as likely as religious marriages to take place during the week: the proportions were one in 2, and one in 14, respectively, in 1994. Friday was the relatively most frequent weekday. There was a small peak of weddings on St Valentine's Day in 1994-which fell on a Monday-particularly amongst couples both of whom were remarrying after divorce. The analyses in this article are based on new data on marriages by day of the week in England and Wales. These will be routinely published from 1994 onwards in the ONS annual reference volumes Marriage and divorce statistics (FM2 series).
Population trends, 2005
This article explores the subject of 'living apart together' (LAT). LAT is a relationship... more This article explores the subject of 'living apart together' (LAT). LAT is a relationship in which the two partners regard themselves as a couple but they are not co-residentially cohabiting. The phenomenon of 'living apart together' is difficult to measure but has become increasingly recognised in international sociological and demographic literature. However, in Great Britain there has so far been little research of this subject and no attempt, until now, to estimate its extent.
Population trends, 2005
The addition of 2001 Census data to the ONS Longitudinal Study extends the range of research topi... more The addition of 2001 Census data to the ONS Longitudinal Study extends the range of research topics that this unique data resource can support. Census questions on religion, care-giving and self-rated health that were asked for the first time in 2001 and the repetition of 1991 questions on limiting long-standing illness and ethnicity raise opportunities for new longitudinal investigation in these areas. This article describes how new 2001 methodologies including data imputation, the One Number Census and de jure enumeration affect the LS database. The support service for existing and prospective LS users is described.
Population trends, 2001
This article first considers some information from a pilot survey to test questions on past cohab... more This article first considers some information from a pilot survey to test questions on past cohabiting unions which did not lead to marriage: when they started and finished; the reason why the couple stopped living together (either because the relationship ended, or because they stopped sharing the same accommodation, or both), and the corresponding durations. The article also analyses the key characteristics and immediate past accommodation history of couples who are currently cohabiting. In particular, patterns of tenure, property ownership and length of time cohabiting are explored--from a family law perspective.
Population trends, 1999
This article describes the derivation of a new set of population estimates of those cohabiting in... more This article describes the derivation of a new set of population estimates of those cohabiting in England and Wales in 1996. As well as estimating the population cohabiting by age and sex, the estimates have also been made by legal marital status. The article then discusses new projections to the year 2021, based on these estimates.
Population trends, 1998
This article analyses a number of aspects of lone parenthood. First, it updates the estimated nat... more This article analyses a number of aspects of lone parenthood. First, it updates the estimated national numbers of one-parent families and dependent children living in them. The article then considers the composition of lone parents by their marital status and examines the family sizes of lone parent families and couple families, as well as contrasting the different age profiles of the different kinds of lone parent. Specially commissioned survey data on the marital and cohabitational histories of lone mothers, married mothers and cohabiting mothers are analysed to give a picture of their differing patterns of past partnerships. The article also investigates the people present in lone parent households in terms of their relationship to the lone parent.
Population trends, 1996
This article provides estimates of the proportions of marriages which ended in divorce for the di... more This article provides estimates of the proportions of marriages which ended in divorce for the different groups of couples who have married since the 1950s. Over one quarter of all couples who married in the late 1970s and early 1980s had divorced by the end of 1994. As well as giving the overall proportion of couples married in a given year who subsequently divorced, estimates are provided of the corresponding proportions for different subsets of those couples--according to each partner's marital status before marriage, and age at marriage. For some of the higher risk groups--bachelors and spinsters who married as teenagers and divorced men and women who remarried in their early twenties--the proportions who had divorced by 1994 had reached over 40 per cent, and in some cases just over 50 per cent, amongst those who had married between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. Finally, a life table analysis is carried out to estimate the proportion of marriages which would end in divorc...
Population trends, 1994
This article gives the final estimate of the number of one-parent families in Great Britain in 19... more This article gives the final estimate of the number of one-parent families in Great Britain in 1991--1.3 million--and a provisional estimate--of 1.4 million--for 1992. It also estimates that there were 2.2 million dependent children living in one-parent families in 1991, and provides a provisional estimate for 1992 of 2.3 million. Overall, in 1992, about one in five families with dependent children was a one-parent family and about one in five of all dependent children lived in a one-parent family. The article also examines the family sizes of one-parent families; the profiles by marital status of both lone mothers and lone fathers; the ages of lone parents and of their dependent children, and the geographical variation in the prevalence of lone parenthood within Great Britain in 1991. Finally, census data on the family composition of households are examined to investigate the extent to which lone parent families live in multi-family households, and the relationship between the lone...
Journal of Applied Statistics, 1988
ABSTRACT The addresses of marriage partners just before their marriage were extracted from the ma... more ABSTRACT The addresses of marriage partners just before their marriage were extracted from the marriage entries of a representative sample of marriages solemnised in England and Wales during 1979. The relative orientation of each marriage was calculated, and for marriages which ranged over 10 kilometres, the angles were found to follow a von Mises distribution with a ‘Preferred direction’ along an axis which was approximately North West/South East. Further investigation, using a combinatorial method, strongly suggests that the phenomenon is largely due to the geographical distribution of persons eligible to marry.
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1986
SummaryThis paper examines the social and demographic features of divorcing couples by the ground... more SummaryThis paper examines the social and demographic features of divorcing couples by the grounds on which their decrees are made absolute and by the party granted the divorce. The demographic characteristics include ages at marriage and at divorce of husbands and of wives granted decrees, duration of marriage, number of children, and the social class of both the husband and the wife. The data are also analysed for particular categories of couples: those in which the wife is a housewife, couples where the husband is unemployed, couples who have a child which was pre-maritally conceived, and couples who have dependent children. There are clear and interesting differences in the demographic characteristics of couples who successfully petition on the various grounds, suggesting that the law is used in different ways by different couples. Reasons for the observed patterns are considered. The data provide some basis for assessing the possible repercussions on divorce of socioeconomic ch...
Trends in three basic measures of completed fertility, based on survey responses from both men an... more Trends in three basic measures of completed fertility, based on survey responses from both men and women on their historical childbearing and fathering, by the respondents’ partnership histories, are analysed using the technique of ‘the concentration of reproduction’ – which has not previously been applied in this particular context. The trajectories, by successive birth cohort, of the concentrations of reproduction, are traced separately for men and for women, and by their different partnership histories. The trajectory for men is found to be larger than that for women for more recent cohorts, largely due to the increased proportions of men reporting not to have fathered any children, but also more generally suggesting a wider variability in men’s fatherings. Corresponding analyses are presented for three main types of partnership histories, for those with: only direct marriages; only or mainly pre-marital cohabitations; and only or mainly non-premarital cohabitations. The trajecto...
Minority Populations, 1992
Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600-2012, 2000
Population trends
Saturday is the most popular day to marry: two thirds of all marriages in England and Wales take ... more Saturday is the most popular day to marry: two thirds of all marriages in England and Wales take place then. However, Saturday marriages are not so popular as they were-in 1979, over three quarters of weddings were solemnised on Saturdays. Civil marriages are seven times as likely as religious marriages to take place during the week: the proportions were one in 2, and one in 14, respectively, in 1994. Friday was the relatively most frequent weekday. There was a small peak of weddings on St Valentine's Day in 1994-which fell on a Monday-particularly amongst couples both of whom were remarrying after divorce. The analyses in this article are based on new data on marriages by day of the week in England and Wales. These will be routinely published from 1994 onwards in the ONS annual reference volumes Marriage and divorce statistics (FM2 series).