marriage/both_sexes: 2

This table contains data behind the story Marriage Isn’t Dead — Yet.

Source for all data is Decennial Census (years 1960 to 2000) and American Community Survey (years 2001-2012), via IPUMS USA.

Except in the divorce file, figures represent share of the relevant population that has never been married (MARST == 6 in the IPUMS data). Note that in the story, charts generally show the share that have ever been married, which is simply 1 - n. In the divorce file, figures are share of the relevant population that is currently divorced, conditional on having ever been married.

Variable names are as follows. Number in variable names are age ranges, so all_2534 is the marriage rate for everyone ages 25 to 34.

Header	Description
`all`	Total (or all men/women in sex-specific files)
`HS`	High school graduate or less (EDUCD < 65)
`SC`	Some college (EDUCD >= 65 & <= 100)
`BAp`	Bachelor's degree or more (EDUCD > 100)
`BAo`	Bachelor's degree, no graduate degre (EDUCD > 100 & <= 113)
`GD`	Graduate degree (EDUCD > 113)
`White`	Non-Hispanic white
`Black`	Black or African-American
`Hisp`	Hispanic of any race
`NE`	New England (REGION == 11)
`MA`	Mid-Atlantic (REGION == 12)
`Midwest`	Midwest (REGION == 21-23)
`South`	South (REGION == 31-34)
`Mountain`	Mountain West (REGION == 41)
`Pacific`	Pacific (REGION == 42)
`poor`	Family income in lowest 25%
`mid`	Family income in middle 50%
`rich`	Family income in top 25%
`work`	Employed 50+ weeks prior year
`nowork`	Not employed at least 50 weeks prior year
`nokids_all`	No own children living at home
`kids_all`	At least one own child living at home

Data license: CC Attribution 4.0 License · Data source: fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub · About: simonw/fivethirtyeight-datasette

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rowid	Unnamed: 0	year	date	all_2534	HS_2534	SC_2534	BAp_2534	BAo_2534	GD_2534	White_2534	Black_2534	Hisp_2534	NE_2534	MA_2534	Midwest_2534	South_2534	Mountain_2534	Pacific_2534	poor_2534	mid_2534	rich_2534	all_3544	HS_3544	SC_3544	BAp_3544	BAo_3544	GD_3544	White_3544	Black_3544	Hisp_3544	NE_3544	MA_3544	Midwest_3544	South_3544	Mountain_3544	Pacific_3544	poor_3544	mid_3544	rich_3544	all_4554	HS_4554	SC_4554	BAp_4554	BAo_4554	GD_4554	White_4554	Black_4554	Hisp_4554	NE_4554	MA_4554	Midwest_4554	South_4554	Mountain_4554	Pacific_4554	poor_4554	mid_4554	rich_4554	nokids_all_2534	kids_all_2534	nokids_HS_2534	nokids_SC_2534	nokids_BAp_2534	nokids_BAo_2534	nokids_GD_2534	kids_HS_2534	kids_SC_2534	kids_BAp_2534	kids_BAo_2534	kids_GD_2534	nokids_poor_2534	nokids_mid_2534	nokids_rich_2534	kids_poor_2534	kids_mid_2534	kids_rich_2534
2	2	1970	1970-01-01	0.126971470328779	0.10940002390343	0.149509574235467	0.218703096762337	0.218703096762337		0.117904279042064	0.185516307973846	0.129876863253402	0.151723141391518	0.164068036853296	0.115374057894861	0.112621980483123	0.102936015908293	0.137496402877698	0.17172023771487	0.0815920680116161	0.172409318019596	0.067325203766268	0.0651196369636964	0.0627172434638053	0.111689880345752	0.111689880345752		0.0625037226177189	0.102909036898725	0.0707050035812954	0.0857011034641855	0.0904072492448703	0.0615627198819949	0.0596605664354893	0.0465116279069767	0.0634779604126561	0.111754789796599	0.0456683843055873	0.0649915925173404	0.0596879421559769	0.0583343860362166	0.0544347803610892	0.104660466046605	0.104660466046605		0.0575479877083897	0.0789916774907394	0.058107401598327	0.0802808191771853	0.078606354287719	0.0579116330151221	0.0517446223111556	0.0397013425227942	0.0482631214330485	0.101648887870533	0.0422163703807391	0.0514286707452725	0.430904340252577	0.0098685958294066	0.424677898909812	0.433347907126585	0.455476602010115	0.455476602010115		0.0124659150395737	0.0036999822684555	0.0014683425349465	0.0014683425349465		0.50977423279708	0.376453769174298	0.428894825933555	0.0299749452991259	0.0033771145400411	0.0030435660898256