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nuptiality: a standalone construct

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nuptiality1 CONSTRUCTNuptialityCOALE · 1971

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Demography

How and when a population marries

Nuptiality is the demographic study of marriage in a population: the frequency, timing, and age pattern of entry into (and dissolution of) marriage or union, treated as a determinant of exposure to childbearing. Coale's 1971 Age patterns of marriage showed that the distribution of ages at first marriage across very different societies shares a strikingly regular shape that can be summarised by a standard schedule with a few parameters. The referent is a population's marriage schedule, a key input to fertility through the proportion married, distinct from the individual event of a wedding.[1]

Unit
Age-specific first-marriage rates and the proportion ever married
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Summarised by the mean age at first marriage, proportions ever married, and model first-marriage schedules

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References

  1. Coale, A. J. (1971). Age patterns of marriage. Population Studies, 25(2), 193–214. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1971.10405798

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