The links below provide users with information on a selection of national datasets used to measure different aspects of relationship quality, such as happiness, conflict, attitudes, and fairness. 

Each spreadsheet contains detailed information on the following...

• Question wording
• Responses
• Variable name
• Codebook location
  
• Valid responses [cross sectionally and longitudinally]
• Examples of journal articles that have used the specific measures

If using the following resources, please cite:
National Center for Family & Marriage Research Measures Snapshot.
Available on http://ncfmr/index.html Accessed on date. Bowling Green State University.

	National Survey of Families and Households
	National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 & National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child & Young Adult
	National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
	Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Survey
	Three-City Study
	National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
	Coming Soon... Marital Instability Over the Life Course
Other Sources of information on data used to measure relationship quality Handbook of Measurement Issues in Family Research	Conceptualizing and Measuring "Healthy Marriage" for Empirical Research and Evaluation Studies: A Review of the Literature This literature review and annotated bibliography represent several products of Child Trends' project to review the state of the art in measuring couple relationships. Constructs and Articles Related to Use and Measurement This work represents the appendix from: Stanley, S. M. (2003, November). Assessing Couple and Marital Relationships: Beyond Form and Toward a Deeper Knowledge of Function. Paper presented at Healthy Marriage Interventions and Evaluation symposium of the Measurement Issues in Family Demography Conference, Washington, D.C.