Fact Sheet 3: Marital status of non-institutionalized people in the National Health Interview Survey |
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| Adults with MR/DD* | N | Estimated N in Population |
% |
| Currently Married |
205 | 270,008 | 14.0% |
| Formerly Married ** |
186 | 243,122 | 12.6% |
| Never Married | 1071 | 1,409,384 | 73.3% |
| Adults without |
N | Estimated N in Population |
% |
| Currently Married |
93,030 | 121,753,185 |
60.1% |
| Formerly Married ** |
24,846
|
31,422,345 | 15.5% |
| Never Married | 36,792 | 49,285,135 |
24.3% |
* Divorced, Legally Separated, or Widowed
This table shows a comparison of the
marital status of persons with mental retardation and/or
developmental disabilities (MR/DD) and persons without MR/DD.
The estimates are based on a total sample of 1,462 people
with MR/DD. This table includes only those persons
who do not live in institutional settings or who are in
the military. Persons with MR/DD reported that they
had never married 73.3% of the time. Further analysis
shows that males with MR/DD are more likely to never marry
75.5% than are females with MR/DD.
Analysis by Lynda L. Anderson, M.A.,
M.P.H., Research and Training Center on Community Living,
University of Minnesota, 210 Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury
Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. For more information
call Lynda at (612) 626-7765.
To see the definitions used for mental retardation or developmental disabilities or the methods used to identify those people in the NHIS see Larson, S.A., Lakin, K.C., Anderson, L., Kwak, N., and Lee, J.H. (2000). Prevalence of Mental Retardation or Developmental Disabilities: Analysis of the 1994/1995 NHIS-DS. MR/DD Data Brief 1 (2). Minneapolis: Research and Training Center on Community Living, University of Minnesota.
Excerpts from Analysis of the 1994-1995 NHIS-D: Fact sheets are published periodically by the Research and Training Center on Community Living and Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD), College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. Funding for this data analysis was provided by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education through a NIDRR-funded Field Initiated project (Cooperative Agreement No. H133G020037). All analyses, interpretations, and conclusions are those of the authors.