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The National Couples’ Health and Time Study (NCHAT) is a longitudinal, nationally-representative, multi-method study of cohabiting and married individuals ages 20 to 60 who were in a same- or different-gender couple in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wave 1 (2020-2021)sample includes 3,642 main respondents and 1,515 spouses/partners and the Wave 3 (2025-2026) sample include reinterviews with Wave 1 respondents and a refresher sample of 1,080 married or cohabiting 20-29 year olds. The NCHAT consists of surveys, time diary with experience sampling, state-level contextual indicators and biomarker measures. The data focus on relationship functioning and milestones, family composition and processes, family building goals, emotion regulation, stress and stressors, physical health, psychological well-being, health behaviors and time use.
NCHAT data is currently available through ICPSR.
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NCHAT Co-Principal Investigators: Claire Kamp Dush and Wendy Manning
This research is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD094081). This project also benefited from support provided by the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Population Center (P2CHD041023) and Bowling Green State University’s Center for Family and Demographic Research (P2CHD050959).
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