Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth - M Listing

• Marriage
  • Ever married
  • Current marital status
  • Marriage probability
  • Outcome of first marriage (marital dissolution and divorce) – See Divorce and martial disruption
  • Attitudes about marriage – See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
• Menarche
• Mistimed pregnancy – See also Intendedness of Pregnancy

 

Marriage

Ever married

Percentage of women and men 15-44 years of age who have ever been married:

	20021-2	2006-20103	2011-20153
Women	58.2%	53.2%	49.5% (0.91)
Men	50.7%	45.2%	43.8% (1.00)

Sources:
¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 47 [PDF – 4.7 MB]
²Series 23, No. 26, Table 30 [PDF – 3.5 MB]
³Special tabulation by NCHS

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Current marital or cohabiting status

Percent distribution of women 15-44 years of age by current marital or cohabiting status:

	20021	2006-20101	2011-20152
Married for the 1st time	37.5%	36.4%	32.1% (0.85)
Married for the 2nd time or more	8.5%	5.1%	6.0% (0.39)
Cohabiting	9.0%	11.2%	14.7% (0.56)
Never married, not cohabiting	35.0%	38.2%	38.8% (0.86)
Formerly married, not cohabiting	9.9%	9.2%	8.3% (0.36)

 

Percent distribution of men 15-44 years of age by current marital or cohabiting status:

	20021	2006-20101	2011-20152
Married for the 1st time	35.0%	32.8%	32.0% (0.95)
Married for the 2nd time or more	7.2%	4.8%	4.2% (0.39)
Cohabiting	9.2%	12.2%	13.3% (0.60)
Never married, not cohabiting	41.6%	45.0%	45.4% (0.93)
Formerly married, not cohabiting	7.0%	5.2%	5.1% (0.25)

Sources:
¹NHSR No. 49, Tables 1 & 2 [PDF – 419 KB]
²Special tabulation by NCHS

Note: Information on women is available for years 1982, and 1995 NSFG in source 1

 

Marriage probability

Probability of first marriage among women 15-44 years of age before reaching specified age:

	20021	2006-20101	2011-20152
By age 20	17%	13%	12%
By age 25	52%	44%	39%
By age 30	73%	68%	62%
By age 35	81%	78%	74%
By age 40	86%	84%	79%

 

 

Probability of first marriage among men 15-44 years of age before reaching specified age:

	20021	2006-20101	2011-20152
By age 20	8%	5%	4%
By age 25	36%	31%	27%
By age 30	61%	56%	54%
By age 35	75%	71%	68%
By age 40	81%	78%	78%

Source:
¹NHSR No. 49, Tables 3 & 4 [PDF – 419 KB]
²Special tabulation by NCHS

Note: Information on women is available for 1995 NSFG in source 1

 

 

 

Menarche (age at first menstrual period)

 

	20021	2006-20102	2011-20152
Mean age at first menstrual period among women 15-44 years of age	12.6 years	12.5 years	12.5 years (0.03)

Sources:
¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 30 [PDF – 4.7 MB]
²Special tabulation by NCHS

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Mistimed pregnancy

Percent distribution of births in the 5 years before the interview that were mistimed at conception, by how much too soon the pregnancy occurred:

	20021	2006-20101	2011-20152
Total Mistimed	20.8%	23.3%	19.5% (0.85)
Less than 2 years too soon	8.0%	9.2%	7.8% (0.55)
2 years or more too soon	12.1%	14.0%	11.6% (0.69)

Sources:
¹NHSR No. 55, Table 1[PDF – 404 KB]
²Special tabulation by NCHS

Note: The two categories of amount mistimed may not add to total mistimed due to cases where amount mistimed cannot be calculated

 

 

 

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