Genna Fogelberg

Genna Fogelberg

 

Family Quiz

 

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The article discussed in this analysis is titled Trends in martial Happiness by Gender and Race 1973 to 2006. This article discusses the methods and findings from a survey on the questions of "How would you describe your marriage?". The data collected is from the General Social Survey that was conducted from 1973 to 2006 and is given to a random selection of English speakers that live in institutional settings. The options for responding to the question are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy. The Independent variables include marital status (divorced or never divorced), if the respondent lives with minors, employment, age, education level, and religion. The results show a significant relationship between race and marital happiness. 24,455 respondents who are currently married were surveyed which included 11,606 men (41.4% white males, 4.2% black males), and 12,849 women (46% white women and 4.6% black women). White males report more marital happiness than Black males in model 1. Models 2 through 5 show that Black married men show more marital happiness than Black women. These models also show that employment, and living with minors leads to less happiness in marriage. Table 1 shows that Black women report the least amount of marital happiness than white males, black males, and white women.

The article discussed in the second analysis is titled Me A Path Toward Interracial Marriage: Women's First Partners and Husbands across Racial Lines. The data in this article was collected from the National Survey of Family growth in 1995. Originally, 10,847 women from age 15 to 44 were surveyed but only 9,216 responses were used for analysis due to a respondent never having had intercourse, having unwanted intercourse, or were of an ethnicity that had less than 100 respondents. Dummy variables included: Immigration status, childhood influences, parents education levels, being of a mixed race, and geography. The Dependent variables include the comparison of the race of the respondent and the race of the first person she had intercourse with, and the relationship of the respondent and the first person she marries. The study models the race of the respondents first sex partner and compares it to the race of the respondent. It is also recorded whether or not the respondent first marries someone of the same race or a different race as her own. The results show that respondents who married someone of a different race had a significantly higher record of their first sex partner being of a different race compared to respondents who married within their race had a higher chance of their first sex partner being of the same race as well. Additionally, respondents who married someone of a different race showed a lower percentage of marrying their first sex partner compared to respondents who married in the same race showed a higher percentage of marrying their first sex partner.