Since June 26, 2015, marriages to same-sex couples have been legally recognized across every state in the United States, bringing new challenges to measuring relationship status in surveys. Starting in 2015 for select households and in 2017 for all households, the Current Population Survey (CPS) used a new household roster that directly identified same-sex and different-sex cohabiting and married couples. We gauge how the estimates and characteristics of same-sex couples vary according to old and new roster categories using the 2015/2016 and 2017/2018 CPS. Employing the new roster, we distinguish the sociodemographic characteristics of married and cohabiting same-sex couples. These findings have implications for the measurement of same-sex couples and our understanding of marriage among sexual minorities.

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衡量婚姻和同居：评估当前人口调查中的同性关系状况。


自 2015 年 6 月 26 日起，美国各州均承认同性伴侣婚姻，这给调查中衡量关系状况带来了新的挑战。从 2015 年开始针对部分家庭，从 2017 年开始针对所有家庭，当前人口调查 (CPS) 使用了新的家庭名册，直接识别同性和异性同居和已婚夫妇。我们使用 2015/2016 和 2017/2018 CPS 来衡量同性伴侣的估计和特征如何根据新旧花名册类别而变化。利用新的名册，我们区分了已婚和同居同性伴侣的社会人口特征。这些发现对于同性伴侣的测量以及我们对性少数群体婚姻的理解具有重要意义。