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In our earlier years, we tend to date and marry others who are around our age. However, this is not true for everyone. Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.
Posted by in age, Data Underload, marriage, relationships
Through pop culture, it sometimes seems like it’s common for there to be a wide age difference between spouses. How common are the age gaps, really? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.
Posted by in age, Data Underload, marriage, relationships
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.
Posted by in Data Underload, divorce, marriage
Posted by in Data Underload, marriage, work
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 of applications and systems software. For the U.S. overall, software developer unions make up less than one-tenth of a percent of all marriages.
Back in 2017, I made similar comparisons nationally. I like this local angle. Also, maybe I should look at the most recent numbers.
Tags: marriage, occupation, San Francisco Chronicle, Susie Neilson
Posted by in marriage, occupation, San Francisco Chronicle, Statistical Visualization, Susie Neilson
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.
Posted by in marriage, Statistical Atlas
Everyone's relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, marriage, relationships
We know that people are marrying later in life, but that's not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, marriage, relationships
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes. Read More
Posted by in Data Underload, marriage, pregnancy
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
Posted by in Data Underload, dating, marriage
