Exempel på cohabiting

• A higher percentage of cohabiting people received care from the cohabitee in 2002/03, although the difference was statistically insignificant.

• This group explored the concept of spiritual correspondences (having an invisible lover cohabiting one's body - a concept invoking transmigration) and sought a promised land.

• Significant difference in the health state score is also observed for cohabiting status and the score is about 4.1% lower for the single.

• A married man, who had risked losing his cohabiting girlfriend if he had not agreed to marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'.

• This second dataset is composed of the responses of the surveyed married or cohabiting parents of secondary school students from all six communities.

• Marital status distinguishes between partnered men (married or cohabiting) and those who are currently widowed, divorced (or separated), or never married.

• Individuals in first or remarried relationships showed a marked increase in depressive symptoms following separation that was absent in those in cohabiting relationships.

• The main part of the research involved qualitative interviews with 17 married and 12 cohabiting 'intact' couples.

• The women were systematically selected from a stratified random sample ensuring approximately equal numbers of single and cohabiting women in each age group.

• The overwhelming majority (77 %) of the sample and the age group were married or cohabiting.

• Similarly, apparent reasons for cohabiting vary by education level with cohabiting being more common among students as a convenient accommodation choice.

• For many married and cohabiting respondents, marriage was seen as an additional, but not necessarily the main, way of achieving security.

• Analysis of results from the first survey has shown that those living-apart-together tend to be much younger than those who are co-residentially cohabiting.

• Consequently, the median time to repartnering is over 7 years - more than twice as long as after the dissolution of a cohabiting union.

• For a spell to be included in this sample the dissolution of the cohabiting union had to be observed within the panel.