Attitudes toward marriage during the transition to adulthood in the United States: a multi-methods, representative, approach

Using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), I investigate how a range of socio-economic and demographic variables are related to a high degree of importance to particular achievements before marriage according to never married young adults (ages 17-24) . I then provide in-depth narrative of premarital life-plans drawing on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews conducted with a subsample of NSYR survey respondents.