{"id":6370,"date":"2009-02-08T02:47:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:16:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:16:42","slug":"changes-in-age-at-marriage-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/08\/changes-in-age-at-marriage-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Age at Marriage Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This graphic shows the age at which successive cohorts of French women are marrying.\u00a0 Along the bottom of the graphic, the thick grey line represents women who were age 15 in 1987 (the oldest at the end of data collection is a little less than 30, which is why the line stops).\u00a0 Each line above that represents an earlier cohort of women.\u00a0 The data shows that, while the earliest cohorts largely married in their early 20s, with just a few stragglers.\u00a0 The younger cohorts increasingly spread out the typical age of marriage.\u00a0 It takes nearly 15 years for the most recent cohort to have married off the same proportion of women that were married in the older cohort in the five years between 15 and 20.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6371\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/proportions_married_by_age.png\" alt=\"proportions_married_by_age\" width=\"509\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/proportions_married_by_age.png 509w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/proportions_married_by_age-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image was borrowed from a new Contexts blog called Graphic Sociology.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Citation: <a href=\"http:\/\/data.princeton.edu\/eco572\/ps4sol.html\" target=\"_blank\">German Rodriguez (2006) Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Problem Set 4: Marriage in France.\u00a0 Research Methods in Demography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graphic shows the age at which successive cohorts of French women are marrying.\u00a0 Along the bottom of the graphic, the thick grey line represents women who were age 15 in 1987 (the oldest at the end of data collection is a little less than 30, which is why the line stops).\u00a0 Each line above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,272,1776],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-nation-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31289,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions\/31289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}