Happyness Comes with...Intelligence?

The National Center for Health Statistics recently published an interesting new analysis on marriage and cohabitation. Researchers gathered a nationally representative sample of the population, men and women aged 15 to 44. There were a number of variations among racial and ethnic groups. According to this article about the survey,

The higher the level of education, the more likely people were to wed, and the less likely they were to live together. More than 60 percent of people with a college degree or higher were married.

The religion of the participants also played a role.

Among white men, 55 percent of those who said religion was “very important” were married, compared with 35 percent of those for whom it was “not important.”

Interestingly, it seemed like for black women only, the importance of religion made no difference.