Table 16. --Average of Calendar Years 1979 and 1981-86 Central Marriage Rates by Age Group, Sex, and Marital Status (Per thousand)
Sex and age group	Marital status
	Total	Single	Widowed	Divorced
Male:
14-19	16.8	16.7	166.9	152.0
20-24	79.8	75.9	209.5	216.5
25-29	117.3	99.5	225.0	212.2
30-34	111.5	73.4	184.3	191.5
35-39	95.0	41.1	100.5	159.2
40-44	88.4	35.3	89.9	151.5
45-49	58.3	15.3	64.9	108.3
50-54	54.1	12.7	62.2	99.8
55-59	37.0	7.4	54.8	60.0
60-64	35.1	6.4	50.3	53.1
65-69	16.1	2.7	19.6	27.7
70-74	14.2	2.3	16.6	24.5
75-79	14.5	2.3	16.6	24.7
80-84	14.9	2.3	16.6	24.7
85-89	15.5	2.3	16.6	24.7
90-94	15.8	2.3	16.6	24.7
Female:
14-19	38.2	37.5	237.2	200.4
20-24	107.4	99.6	136.7	224.9
25-29	129.0	105.5	84.6	189.8
30-34	101.5	66.9	62.3	138.5
35-39	65.6	34.5	36.3	91.3
40-44	59.9	29.3	32.4	82.8
45-49	31.2	12.0	20.9	47.7
50-54	25.2	9.7	18.8	41.7
55-59	11.2	4.8	9.7	18.8
60-64	8.8	3.9	8.2	15.4
65-69	2.8	1.1	2.5	6.8
70-74	2.1	0.8	2.0	5.6
75-79	2.0	0.8	2.0	5.7
80-84	2.0	0.8	2.0	5.7
85-89	2.0	0.8	2.0	5.7
90-94	2.0	0.8	2.0	5.7
Note : The central marriage rate is the ratio of the number of marriages during the year in the tabulated age cell to the square root of the product of the midyear number of unmarried males in the age group of husband and the midyear number of unmarried females in the age group of wife.