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leraconteur2002{at}yahoo.com says...
> The provisional numbers for July 2004:
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> http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_13.pdf
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> Number: 238,000
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> Rate per 1,000 pop.: 9.6
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> Cite and Link to CDC, NCHS and NVSS homepage.
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> url=http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
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> The totals for the period of Jan - July:
> 2000 1,301,000
> 2001 1,341,000   diff = +40,000  -2.9%
> 2002 1,267,000   diff = -74,000
> 2003 1,234,000   diff = -33,000
> 2004 1,209,000   diff = -25,000
>
>
Not at all surprising given this data---also from the
US census:

"Four age groups experienced a decrease in population over the past
decade:  the 25- to 29-year-olds (-9 percent), the 30- to 34-year-olds
(-6 percent),  the 65-to 69-year-olds (-6 percent) and the 20- to 24-
year-olds (-0.3 percent)."

http://www.census.gov/Press-
Release/www/releases/archives/children/000321.html

It will be interesting to see if the marriage rates increase over
the next decade as the percentage of persons in the prime
marrying years increases.  Except for the sharp decline in
2001-2002,  it looks like the decline is already starting
to disappear.    Hmmm,   I wonder if the War on Terror
and the 9/11 attacks had an effect on marriage rates
that year?


It's also significant that divorce rates fell between
2002 and 2004.

Details at:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_13.pdf

Mark Borgerson




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