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From: "Tom of Bunyon" <>
Subject: Re: Demographic data?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:34:45 -0400
References: <MOEFKCLHIBEHNOPIGDHMMEHICFAA.robert@wildweasel.net>


There's a magazine called "American Demographics" that I can look at at the
local public library.

You can also get the Federal Census books which has extensive breakdowns by
age.


"Robert W. King" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi folks!
>
> Quite some time back, I adopted the practice of estimating birth or
marriage
> dates in those cases where I didn't have data on one item or the other. I
> just used my own 'horse-back estimate' of the usual ages at which a man or
> woman marries for the first time, the age at which a woman gives birth to
> her first child, the typical interval between marriage and the arrival of
> the first child, and the usual intervals between that first child and any
> subsequent children.
>
> I would like to refine my estimation technique. To that end, I need to
have
> a look at those same items for American populations as they have varied
over
> the years. For instance, while two hundred years ago, marriages of girls
of
> fourteen and fifteen were not uncommon, they are relatively rare today.
> Since estimation is based on prevailing age (I'm not entirely comfortable
> saying the 'average age) at which such life events take place, some kind
of
> tabular data seems to be desirable. Can anybody direct me to sources for
> such data.
>
> --
> Robert W. King
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