Key Statistics from the NSFG (from A to Z)
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- Marriage
- Ever married
- Current formal marital status
- Marriage probability
- Outcome of first marriage (marital dissolution and divorce) -See Divorce and marital disruption
- Attitudes about marriage - See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
- Menarche
- Mistimed pregnancy
Marriage
Ever married
- Percent of women and men 15-44 years
of age
in 2002 who were ever married:
- Women - 58.2%
- Men - 50.7%
Sources: Series 23, No. 25, Table 47
and Series 23, No. 26, Table 30
Current formal marital status
- Percent distribution of women and men
15-44 years of age by current formal
marital status, 2002:
Marital status Women Men First marriage 37.5% 35.0% Second or later marriage 8.5% 7.2% Separated, divorced, or widowed 12.1% 8.4% Never married 41.8% 49.4% Sources: Series 23, No. 25, Table 46
and Series 23, No. 26, Table 29
Marriage probability
- Probability of first marriage among men and women 15-44
years of age before reaching specified age, 2002:
By age 20 By age 25 By age 30 By age 35 Women 17% 51% 73% 82% Men 7% 36% 61% 75% Sources: Series 23, No. 25, Table 50
and Series 23, No. 26, Table
32
Menarche (age at first menstrual period)
- Mean age at first menstrual period for women 15-44
years of age in 2002:
12.6 years
Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 30
Mistimed pregnancy
- Percent of pregnancies that were mistimed (i.e.,
a pregnancy that the mother wanted to have eventually but it
occurred too soon) among women 15-44 years
of age,
in 2002: 20.8%
Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 21
- Percent distribution of
mistimed pregnancies (leading to births or spontaneous loss
in January 1999-2002) to women 15-44
years of age
in 2002, by how much too soon it occurred:
- Less than 2 years too soon: 41.9%
- 2-3 years too soon: 19.3%
- 3 or more years too soon: 38.8%
Page Last Modified: October 15, 2008
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