U.S. Military Marriage and Divorce Trends from 1996 to 2005

1996 to 2005 trends in marriage and marital dissolution among U.S. military personnel, with analysis of deployment effects. The authors estimate dissolution rates across services and components, comparing them to 1996 levels. The research was authored by Benjamin R. Karney.

Use Cases

• Modeling the risk of marital dissolution based on deployment status mentioned in the description
• Analyzing longitudinal trends in marriage stability across military services mentioned in the description
• Studying the effects of occupational stress on family outcomes based on the research focus

Strengths

• Analysis covers a defined 10-year period from 1996 to 2005
• Compares marital dissolution rates across different military services and components
• Examines a specific causal factor: the effect of deployment days on marriage risk

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Benjamin R. Karney

Collection Method

Likely involves analysis of administrative or survey data, as inferred from the research description.

Time Range

1996 to 2005

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Likely United States, given the focus on U.S. military personnel.