marriage
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I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.Read More
Susie Neilson for the San Francisco Chronicle compared the marriage of professions in San Francisco against the national average. As you might expect, there were a lot of programmers: Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most common union between two professionals here is between a computer programmer and … another computer programmer. Our estimates show that an estimated 1% of all marriages in the region are between two software developers — specifically developers...
About 48% of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is married. I was curious if there were regional variations, so I mapped it.Read More
Everyone's relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage. Read More
We know that people are marrying later in life, but that's not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching. Read More
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes. Read More
Based on the "half-your-age-plus-seven" rule, the range of people you can date expands with age. Combine that with population counts and demographics, and you can find when your non-creepy dating pool peaks. Read More
Given your age, this is the percentage of people who have married at least once. Read More