04 March 2011

Median age at first marriage

An interesting trend.

Posted by Dana Goldstein, via The Daily Dish.

6 comments:

  1. another interesting stat might be 'percentage of people over 21 who have never been married'

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  2. There's one on this page, Jim -

    http://peatey.blogspot.com/

    (scroll down)

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  3. Thanks Stan!

    Fascinating, not quite the shape i'd have predicted.

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  4. From what I've heard, the Greatest Generation (those who basically started this graph) married at a younger age then did their parents. I'd like to see the same kind of graph, but over a much longer period of time, beginning maybe 50 or 100 years earlier.

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  5. The problem with determining graphical evidence with median is that there could be a difference of 1 million of 1 in the data they are using.

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  6. Certainly. But if a 100-year old person gets married and you use mean values rather than median, that would also distort the graph

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