This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in 2017 on the duration of the current relationship status of Americans. The results were then sorted by age. Some 39 percent of respondents between 30 and 49 years stated they have been single/in a relationship for more than 10 years.

This statistic illustrates the findings of a survey on the duration of current relationship or being single in the United Kingdom (UK) in June 2017, by age group. During the survey period, it was found that ** percent of respondents aged between 30 to 59 years, stated that they had been single or married for ten years and longer. Furthermore, it could be seen that the majority of respondents had been either single or in a relationship for longer than *** year.

The average relationship duration of Russians aged between 18 and 24 years was four years, according to survey results from February 2020. On average among all age categories, the mean length of a relationship between partners was measured at 21 years.

According to a survey among Chinese college students, the average age that male respondents entered their first relationship was at 16.27 years old. It was slightly older than 16.17 years old for female respondents. On average, Chinese university students had their first boyfriend or girlfriend at 16.22 years old.

in 2023, on average, women in Germany got married sometime after turning 32 years old. The graph confirms that marriage took place later and later every year. Various reasons may contribute to this development. Life today Women can simply afford, in various senses of the word, to marry later than before. Being unmarried, regardless of age, has mostly ceased to be stigmatized or unusual for women in Germany. This does not exclude pressure, attention or curiosity from others about the topic, or a woman’s relationship status. It also does not exclude the desire of women to get married. However, in general, attitudes have relaxed significantly in recent decades, nor are there any legal restrictions for unmarried women in terms of education, employment, healthcare, renting or owning property. Women’s life expectancy at birth has increased steadily in Germany, with the latest figures citing 83.2 years. It is also not unusual for Germans to have children outside of a marriage. In fact, figures have been climbing annually since the 1990s and in 2023, around a third of children born, were born outside a marriage. Whether this happens due to a decision made mutually, individually or other circumstances, a woman being shunned for having a child out of wedlock is definitely a thing of the past. Changing demographics Marrying at a later age than in the 1990s, when women got married in their mid to late twenties, is also part of a general demographic shift in Germany, such as the increase in single households (though it does not necessarily mean that the person is unmarried, they might be in a long-distance marriage, for example). Women may also still be studying or traveling before their thirties, preferring to concentrate on concluding these chapters in their lives before proceeding to marriage, especially if they do not yet have a full-time job.

In 2023, according to a survey by ElitePartner, around ** percent of people in Germany got together with their first true love when they were aged 15 to 19. The vast majority of people were in a relationship with their first love from the ages of ** to **.

In the European Alps, ice core studies have been mainly performed in view of the recent man-made influence on the atmospheric load of aerosol-related species, while respective investigations on the pre-industrial aerosol or on stable water isotope-based climate records remained sparse. We address from a glaciological perspective the specific conditions of Alpine drilling sites and, in particular, the role of depositional noise. Thereby, we refer to two major drilling areas (located in the summit range of Monte Rosa and Mt Blanc massif, respectively) which largely differ in their snow accumulation rate and, hence, in their accessible time scale. A simple scheme considering the seasonality of both, the precipitation-borne signal and the snow erosion-controlled net accumulation rate is presented. It shows that water isotope trends are generally more sensitive to distortion by a seasonality effect than recent snow impurities trends, although the influence of a given seasonal accumulation rate cycle on the mean levels of water isotopes and impurities is similar. These findings are illustrated on the decadal and centennial time scale by the inter- and intra-site variability of major ion and water isotope records. The intra-site comparison includes the discussion of strong water isotope depletions seen some meters above bedrock at low accumulation drilling sites.

Ninety-seven Israeli cohabiting adult couples were recruited and completed an initial background questionnaire. Ten couples dropped out during the study. Mean age for men was 29.9 years (range: 22-65, SD = 8.9) and mean age for women was 29.7 years (range: 22-64, SD = 9.5). All participants had a high-school education, and 67% completed higher education. The average relationship duration was 7.2 years (range: 10 months to 39 years, SD = 8.31 years), and average cohabitation was 4.9 years. Sixty (33.1%) of the couples were married and 30 (17%) had at least one child. Three of the couples were lesbians, all others were heterosexual.

At the study initiation, a research assistant introduced the study’s general goal of examining daily processes in intimate relationships. After providing informed consent, participants were asked to complete a background questionnaire. They then receive to their personal email a link to the diary for a period of 3 weeks. The link arrived daily at 8:00 pm, but partners were requested to complete the diary within an hour of going to bed. On average, participants completed 18.4 diaries (SD = 3.38, 87.6% compliance). At the end of the diary couples completed a short follow-up assessment. Couples received no monetary compensation but participated in a raffle for two prizes (vacation vouchers) worth $140.

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic changed nearly every aspect of daily life and had detrimental effects on mental health. Yet, impacts have been heterogeneous. We tested whether fluctuations in local COVID-19 percent positivity rates were associated with daily anxiety and depression in couples living in NYC, as well as whether these associations varied by relationship quality or season. We expected that adverse impacts of COVID-19 may be attenuated by high-quality relationships and during warmer months, or that people may habituate over time.MethodsData on seven-day rolling average COVID-19 percent positive rate each day in NYC were merged with a 14-day dyadic diary study of cohabiting couples living in NYC between August 2020 through April 2021 (232 individuals from 116 couples; mean age 28.42 years, 52.59% female, 53.02% White). Dyadic multilevel models estimated the association COVID-19 positivity rate, season (sine and cosine of the calendar date), baseline relationship quality, and all two-and three-way interactions of these variables with daily anxiety and depression. Covariates included weekend and COVID-positive case within the couple.ResultsAnxiety and depression mirrored COVID-19 positivity rates, and there was some evidence for habituation over time. Significant two-and three-way interactions suggested that being in a high-quality relationship buffered the association of COVID-19 positivity rate with both anxiety and depression during months when cases were low. Anxiety was elevated for individuals in high- (v. low-) quality relationships during the December–January surge.ConclusionSeven-day rolling average COVID-19 percent positivity rate was associated with daily anxiety and depression among couples living in NYC. There was some evidence that individuals habituated to this stressor over time and that high-quality relationships were protective for mental well-being; however, there was some suggestion that couples in high-quality relationships may have engaged in processes such as co-rumination during surges, worsening their daily anxiety.

Eighty-seven Israeli cohabiting adult couples were recruited from the general community and completed an initial background questionnaire. Thirteen couples dropped during the study. The mean age for men was 31.4 years (range: 24-68, SD = 10.5) and the mean age for women was 29.4 years (range: 22-62, SD = 8.4). All participants had a high-school education, 63% having completed higher education. The average relationship duration was 7.2 years (range: 7 months to 43 years, SD = 9.1 years), and average cohabitation was 5.1 years. Twenty-seven (35.5%) of the couples were married and 12 (15.7%) had at least one child. All the couples were heterosexual.
At the study initiation, a research assistant introduced the study’s general goal of examining daily processes in intimate relationships. After providing informed consent, participants were asked to complete a background questionnaire. They then receive to their personal email a link to the diary for a period of 4 weeks. The link arrived daily at 8:00 pm, but partners were requested to complete the diary within an hour of going to bed. On average, participants completed 24.3 diaries (SD = 4.01, 86.8% compliance). At the end of the diary couples completed a short follow-up assessment. Couples received no monetary compensation but participated in a raffle for two prizes (vacation vouchers) worth $140.

We recruited 122 couples through online (e.g., Reddit, Kijiji, Facebook, Craigslist) and physical (e.g., university campuses, public transportation centers) advertisements in Canada and the United States. Eligible couples were currently living together or seeing each other at least five out of seven days, sexually active, 18 years of age or older, residing in Canada or the United States, able to read and understand English, and had daily access to a computer with internet. Both partners had to agree to participate. One couple was excluded because they only completed the baseline survey of the study. The final sample consists of 121 couples ranging in age from 20 to 78 years (M = 32.63, SD = 10.19). The sample was primarily White/Caucasian (65.3%), straight/heterosexual (81.4%), and married (46.7%), and the average relationship length was 8.50 years (SD = 8.41). Couples were pre-screened for eligibility via e-mail and telephone. Once eligibility and consent were confirmed, each partner completed a 60-minute online background survey, followed by 10- to 15-minute online surveys for 21 consecutive days, and a 20-minute online follow-up survey three months later. Participants were asked to complete the surveys before bed each night and to begin the study on the same day as their partner. Each partner was compensated up to $60 CAD ($48 USD). The ethics board approval number is: e2017 - 324

Among Alpine ice core drilling sites, the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle situated in the Monte Rosa summit range is the only one whose net snow accumulation rate is low enough to offer climate records back to some 1000 yr. It is demonstrated that the strong snow erosion at this site particularly hampers the interpretation of stable water isotope records d18O, dD in terms of atmospheric temperature changes. We evaluate the d18O records from four Colle Gnifetti cores for their common variability to extract a composite isotope record that may be compared with the instrumental temperature evidence. Time series analyses over the last 120 yr reveal that the common d18O signal is mainly reflected in the low frequency variability, starting at the decadal scale. Comparing the correspondingly smoothed composite record to the high-elevation temperature time series (specifically adjusted to the seasonality of the net snow accumulation) reveals the following findings: On the decadal scale, the isotope variability correlates with the temperature record at around R=0.65 but is interrupted by three, ca. 10-yr long mismatch periods. The multidecadal isotope signal closely reflects the strong overall 20th century temperature increase, thereby showing an up to three-fold higher isotope temperature sensitivity than commonly assumed. Over the entire instrumental period back to 1760, five more such mismatch periods are embedded in the generally coherent pattern of the d18O and instrumental temperature records (including the strong overestimate of the temperature around 1850 by the isotope temperature proxy). For the early instrumental period (1890-1760) characterized by a comparably weak long-term temperature trend, the isotope signal generally suggests warmer conditions of about 0.4°C compared to instrumental data.

This statistic displays the share of people feeling satisfied with their social relationships in Finland in 2018, by age group. According to the results of the survey, approximately 80 percent of the respondents felt satisfied with their social relationships. With roughly 82 percent, the share of people aged 55 to 74 years feeling satisfied with their relationships was approximately three percent higher than the average.

SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES RELATIONSHIP - DP02 Universe - Population in households Survey-Program - American Community Survey 5-year estimates Years - 2020, 2021, 2022 The responses to this question were used to determine the relationships of all persons to the householder, as well as household type (married couple family, nonfamily, etc.). From responses to this question, we were able to determine numbers of related children, own children, unmarried partner households, and multigenerational households. We calculated average household and family size. When relationship was not reported, it was imputed using the age difference between the householder and the person, sex, and marital status.

Background: Substantial concern exists about the high risk of sexually transmitted HIV to adolescent girls and young women (AGYW, ages 15-24) in Eastern and Southern Africa. Yet limited research has been conducted with AGYW’s male sexual partners regarding their perspectives on relationships and strategies for mitigating HIV risk. We sought to fill this gap in order to inform the DREAMS Partnership and similar HIV prevention programs in Uganda. Methods: We conducted 94 in-depth interviews, from April-June 2017, with male partners of AGYW in three districts: Gulu, Mukono, and Sembabule. Men were recruited at community venues identified as potential transmission areas, and via female partners enrolled in DREAMS. Analyses focused on men’s current and recent partnerships and HIV service use. Results: Most respondents (80%) were married and 28 years old on average. Men saw partner concurrency as pervasive, and half described their own current multiple partners. Having married in their early 20s, over time most men continued to seek out AGYW as new partners, regardless of their own age. Relationships were highly fluid, with casual short-term partnerships becoming more formalized, and more formalized partnerships characterized by periods of separation and outside partnerships. Nearly all men reported recent HIV testing and described testing at distinct relationship points (e.g., when deciding to continue a relationship/get married, or when reuniting with a partner after a separation). Testing often stemmed from distrust of partner behavior, and an HIV-negative status served to validate respondents’ current relationship practices. Conclusions: Across the three regions in Uganda, findings with partners of AGYW confirm earlier reports in Uganda of multiple concurrent partnerships, and demonstrate substantial HIV testing. Yet they also unearth the degree to which these partnerships are fluid (switching between casual and/or more long-term partnerships), which complicates potential HIV prevention strategies. Context-specific findings around these partnerships and risk are critical to further tailor HIV prevention programs.

In a survey conducted in Australia in 2021, the average age that young respondents aged 14 to 18 years reported first experiencing vaginal sex was **** years. The average age for first viewing pornography was **** years.

Eighty-seven Israeli cohabiting adult couples (N=174) were recruited and completed an initial background questionnaire. Fifteen couples dropped out during the study (final N=144). Mean age for men was 29.9 years (range: 23-58, SD = 8.6) and mean age for women was 28.7 years (range: 23-57, SD = 7.7). All participants had a high-school education, and 54% completed higher education. The average relationship duration was 7.0 years (range: 13 months to 37 years, SD = 7.3 years). Twenty-two (40.0%) of the couples were married and fifteen (20.8%) had at least one child. Four of the couples were of the same sex; all others were heterosexual. At the study initiation, a research assistant introduced the study’s general goal of examining daily processes in intimate relationships. After providing informed consent, participants were asked to complete a background questionnaire. They were then sent via email a link to a diary to complete daily over a 3-week period. The link arrived daily at 8:00 pm, but partners were asked to complete the diary within an hour of going to bed. On average, participants completed 19.0 diaries (SD = 2.66, 90.4% compliance). At the end of the diary period, couples completed a short follow-up assessment. Couples received no monetary compensation, but participated in a raffle for two prizes (vacation vouchers) worth $140.

Many vocalizing animals produce the discrete elements of their acoustic signals in a specific sequential order, but we know little about the biological relevance of this ordering. For that, we must characterize the degree by which individuals differ in how they organize their signals sequentially and relate these differences to variation in quality and fitness. In this study, we fulfilled these tasks in male collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis). We characterized the sequential order of syllables with a network analysis approach and studied the consistency of network variables on distinct time-scales (within-day, between-day, and between-year), and assessed their relationship with such quality indicators as age, body condition, arrival date, and fitness-related proxies like survival to the next year and pairing success. We found that the syllables were associated non-randomly with one another and both the frequency differences of consecutive syllables and the number of motif types were higher in the original than in randomized syllable sequences. Average degree and small-worldness showed considerable among-individual differences and decreasing repeatability with increasing time-scale. Furthermore, we found relationships between male age and average degree among and within individuals. Accordingly, older males produce syllable sequences by using common syllables less often than younger individuals. However, the network variables showed no relationship with fitness-related variables. In conclusion, the sequential organization of birdsong has the potential to encode individual-specific characteristics, which thus could be used as signals in social interactions and thus potentially could be subject to sexual selection.

Methods Data based on field recordings, segmented and manually clustered syllables from the song of collared flycatcher. We also included repeated recordings from the same individuals from the same day, different days, or from different years. Based on the syllables sequence, we generated directed unweighted networks and calculated 4 network measure variables for all recordings: average degree, average minimum path, clustering coefficient, and small-worldness. We also searched for the motifs with different lengths. Furthermore, we calculated the frequency differences between the consecutive syllables. The details of the processing are provided in the manuscript.

IntroductionThe regulation of one’s step length by placing one’s foot at a specific position within gait, otherwise known as ‘locomotor pointing’, is well understood in walking and running gait. The current study was the first to broaden this understanding to a larger cohort and to describe the influence of age on the regulation of locomotor pointing when walking up to and stepping onto a curb-like platform.MethodsYounger (n = 17, mean age: 25.35 years, range: 19–33) and older adults (n = 105, mean age: 71.49 years, range: 61–86) participated in a walking experiment, requiring them to approach and step onto a curb-like platform. Linear mixed effects modeling was used to study the main outcome variables: onset of regulation, the regulation strategy and the strength of perceptual-motor coupling.ResultsResults showed that with older age, participants showed less variability in foot placement during their approach and seemed to prefer to shorten their steps. Furthermore, the strength of the perceptual-motor relationship was found to be related to age; regulation of step length of both younger and older participants was based on a participant’s current foot position. The strength of this relationship increased as participants got closer to the curb and was stronger with increasing age. Furthermore, younger adults on average lengthened their steps as they got closer to the curb, whereas older adults showed significantly less lengthening compared to their younger counterparts. No age-related differences were found in terms of onset of regulation.DiscussionThe results suggest that the strength of the perceptual-motor relationship in gait is related to age. It is argued that this age-related increase in the strength of perceptual-motor coupling is required to cope with increasing demands linked to the age-related declines of action capabilities. The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of increased falls risks and deficits in perceptual-motor functioning.

Living Conditions Survey (LCS): Average net annual income (the year prior to that of the interview) per person and consumption unit, by relationship with economic activity (persons aged 16 years old and over). Annual. National.