Marriage Rates


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I'm trying to find data on US marriages for my project. A Google search led me to http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/mardiv.htm which summarizes data. Everything seems to say that the CDC has this data, but I cannot find it on their website. Can someone help me?
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The California Dept. of Public Health has marriage licenses sold monthly by county for 2006 to 2010. However, it's in a PDF format that's not conducive to copying into Excel.

Marriage Licenses Sold in California
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/Pages/OHIRMarriageData.aspx
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The National Bureau of Economic Research has the NCHS's vital stat data for marriages and divorce on their site!

NCHS's Marriage and Divorce Data 1968-1995
http://www.nber.org/data/marrdivo.html
"Marriage microdata includes variables such as date of marriage, state residency, education, previous marital status, number of marriages, and ages of bride and groom. Divorce microdata include variables such as number or children under 18, custody, month and year of marriage, marriage duration, number of marriages, age, race, and state residency of husband and wife."


For a time series, I guess would need to count the entries. Say add up all the marriages in a given year, then divide by the population. That means I would need population numbers as well. Unless, I could just use the number of marriages. Would that be acceptable?

[NEAS: Identify the ideal data. Marriage rates per capita are needed to compare different states. The U.S. census publishes populations by state every ten years. In a single state, or for the U.S. overall, per capita figures are easier to compute.

 

Few student projects use ideal data; you are always limited by the data that are available. The student project is an application of the course concepts to real data. In the write-up, explain what data are available and how other factors (that are not easily measured) might distort the results. Then do the student project with the data you have.

 

Most data can be read into Excel, though you may need to spend some time reformatting the spreadsheet.]

 

 


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New Jersey State Health Assessment Data

Marriage Data - State and County Tables
http://njshad.doh.state.nj.us/marriage.html

Number of marriages by year, month, and county and  age category and previous marital status for bride and groom. Data from 1990 to 2007.


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