Education

In 1980, the numbers were as follows African American males without a high-school diploma shared in marriage at 96.5% for those who received a high-school diploma, 95.6% for those with a college degree and above the percentage of marriage were 94.0%. Therefore the total change in percentage among African American men with a college degree was just 2.5%. The rates for African American women changed very little with different educational levels. For the African American woman who had not received a high school diploma the rate was 98.7% high school diploma was 98.6% with some college it was 98.2%, and college degree or higher 98.5%. During this time there was a big increase in marriages between Caucasians and African Americans keeping that African Americans are most likely to marry Caucasians over other groups.

The 1990 results show that rates of marriage dropped for both males and females althrough more for the African American male. In 1990 an African American male with a college degree and more was sharing in marriage at 90.4% for an African American female with the same educational level 96.4%. The results for the turn of separate at higher educational accomplishment levels to start less in marriage over the 10 year period were similar across races including Caucasians, Hispanics, and Asian Americans.