0 present participle of cohabit --
1 If two people, especially a man and woman who are not married, cohabit, they live together and have a sexual relationship: --
For a spell to be included in this sample the dissolution of the cohabiting union had to be observed within the panel.
Consequently, the median time to repartnering is over 7 years - more than twice as long as after the dissolution of a cohabiting union.
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.
For many married and cohabiting respondents, marriage was seen as an additional, but not necessarily the main, way of achieving security.
Similarly, apparent reasons for cohabiting vary by education level with cohabiting being more common among students as a convenient accommodation choice.
The overwhelming majority (77 %) of the sample and the age group were married or cohabiting.
The women were systematically selected from a stratified random sample ensuring approximately equal numbers of single and cohabiting women in each age group.
The main part of the research involved qualitative interviews with 17 married and 12 cohabiting 'intact' couples.
