Three quarters of Swiss adults are in a couple relationship
Published: Wednesday, Dec 18th 2024, 11:30
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Three quarters of adults in Switzerland live in a couple. With the exception of 18 to 24-year-olds, the vast majority of couples live in a shared home, as a survey by the Federal Statistical Office for 2023 shows.
Around a tenth of people aged 25 and over in a relationship do not live with their partner. For half of them, it takes a little less than two years before they move in with their partner, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) wrote on its website on Wednesday.
More than half of the couples are separated by an age difference of no more than three years. Two thirds of couples have the same level of education and a majority have the same nationality, according to the FSO.
Five years after the start of the relationship, just over half of couples have married. After ten years, it was three quarters and after twenty years 85 percent. Younger generations are getting married later, the report continued.
Men more satisfied in relationships
A third of 25 to 80-year-olds live in a consensual partnership, wrote the FSO. Children play an important role in the decision to marry. Among 35 to 44-year-olds, the proportion of non-married couples falls from 64% to 15% if the couple has at least one child together. Among 45- to 54-year-olds, this figure drops from 58% to 7%.
Three quarters of people aged 25 and over in a relationship are very satisfied with their partnership. Men are slightly more satisfied than women. According to the FSO, there is no difference between same-sex and opposite-sex couples. If a couple lives in a shared household, satisfaction is higher. It is highest in a shared household without children.
The survey on families and generations is conducted every five years. A total of 18,317 people aged between 15 and 79 were surveyed throughout Switzerland as part of the random sample survey via the Internet and telephone.
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