Abstract
Marital status life tables, which follow a birth cohort through life and the marital statuses of Never Married, Presently Married, Widowed, and Divorced, provide a detailed description of lifetime marriage and divorce behavior. The present paper examines summary measures from such tables for male and female Switzerland cohorts born 1888-1945. The results show that the Swiss have participated in the general Western trend toward more and earlier marriage and higher levels of divorce. In Switzerland, however, the changes were largely ones of degree. Much of the traditional pattern of nonmarriage and late marriage remained, and the rise in divorce was relatively modest.
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