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Family Composition

Family Composition is a demographic construct denoting the structural configuration of household members, including the number, generational levels, biological and legal relationships, and co-residential arrangements that distinguish one family system from another within the study of family assessment and development.

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Family Structure, Parental Practices and High School Completion

Nan Marie Astone, Sara McLanahan · American Sociological Review · 1991 · 1.4K citations

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The Home Environments of Children in the United States Part I: Variations by Age, Ethnicity, and Poverty Status

Robert H. Bradley, Robert F. Corwyn, Harriette Pipes McAdoo et al. · Child Development · 2001 · 1.2K citations

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Family Structure and the Reproduction of Inequalities

Sara McLanahan, Christine Percheski · Annual Review of Sociology · 2008 · 977 citations

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The design and content of the National Survey of Families and Households.

James A. Sweet, Larry L. Bumpass · 1988 · 703 citations

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The role of cohabitation in family formation: The United States in comparative perspective

Patrick Heuveline, Jeffrey M. Timberlake · Journal of Marriage and the Family · 2004 · 523 citations · Full text

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  1. SM
    Suzanne M. Bianchi

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    8 publications · 992 citations

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  2. FG
    Frances Goldscheider

    Brown University, United States

    7 publications · 682 citations

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  3. LL
    Larry L. Bumpass

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    7 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. DK
    Donna K. Ginther

    University of Kansas, United States

    5 publications · 599 citations

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  5. JA
    James A. Sweet

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    5 publications · 1K citations

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Institutions

688

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    19 h-index

    31 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    17 h-index

    26 publications

    2.1K citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    16 h-index

    32 publications

    3.6K citations

  4. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    13 h-index

    21 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    851 citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    12 h-index

    13 publications

    4.4K citations

  8. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    602 citations

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  1. Journal of Marriage and the Family

    114 publications · 10K citations

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  2. Journal of Family Issues

    32 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. Demography

    29 publications · 3K citations

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  4. Social Forces

    SF · 23 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. PubMed

    Repository · 22 publications · 808 citations

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