Headlines

• The sharp decline, since the turn of the millennium, in the proportion of individuals cohabiting with or married to a partner with a different level of educational attainment may be a sign of the weakening of the `social glue'.
• A `preference for homogamy' has been on the rise in five countries analysed (France, Hungary, Portugal, Romania and the USA).
• Some of the commonly used indicators of homogamy obscure these trends.