Table 1.
Questions used to assess reasons for live-in partnership breakdown.
Fig 1.
Reasons for live-in partnership breakdown reported by men and women aged 16–74 in Britain (presented in order of men’s prevalence).
*; p-value <0.05 for gender difference (Chi-square test). †; those answering ‘other reasons’ were asked to specify their reason. ǂ; drink/drugs/gambling was the only specified reason reported by >1% of respondents. Each bar includes 95% confidence intervals.
Fig 2.
Venn diagrams of the most common reasons for live-in partnership breakdown by gender and most recent ended partnership type.
(A) Men. (B) Women. (C) Formerly married men and women. (D) Formerly cohabiting men and women. *37.9% of men, 32.7% of women, 30.1% of formerly married men and women, and 37.1% of those who cohabited reported none of these reasons.
Table 2.
Reported reasons for live-in partnership breakdown among men in Britain aged 16–74, by most recent ended partnership type.
Table 3.
Reported reasons for live-in partnership breakdown among women in Britain aged 16–74, by most recent ended partnership type.