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Live Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces: 1950 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0077)

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About

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR),

See also < http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm >.

For more information:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

Usage Notes

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Rights Info

All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Prior to 1960, data adjusted for underregistration.
  2. Infants under 1 year, excluding fetal deaths; rates per 1,000
    registered live births.
  3. Includes estimates for some States through 1965 and also for 1976
    and 1977 and marriage licenses for some states for all years except
    1973 and 1975. Beginning 1978, includes nonlicensed marriages in
    California.
  4. Includes reported annulments and some estimated state figures for all years.
  5. Divorce rate excludes data for California, Colorado, Indiana, and Louisiana; population for this rate also excludes these states.
  6. Divorce rates exclude data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Minnesota, in 2005 and 2006;
    California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, and Louisiana, in 2004;
    California, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Oklahoma in 2003; and California, Indiana, and Oklahoma in 2002.
    Populations for these rates also exclude these States.
  7. Provisional data. Includes nonresidents of the United States.
  8. Excludes Louisiana.

Headnotes

[Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Beginning 1970, excludes
births to, and deaths of nonresidents of the United States.
See Appendix III]

Shape

table: [78, 13]

Snippet

Year Deaths Deaths
Births 1 (1,000) Total (1,000) Infant 2 (1,000) Marriages 3 (1,000) Divorces 4 (1,000)
Births 1 Total Infant 2 Marriages 3 Divorces 4
1950 3632 1452 104 1667 385 24.1 9.6 29.2 11.1 2.6
1955 4097 1529 107 1531 377 25 9.3 26.4 9.3 2.3
1957 4300 1633 112 1518 381 25.3 9.6 26.3 8.9 2.2
1960 4258 1712 111 1523 393 23.7 9.5 26 8.5 2.2
1965 3760 1828 93 1800 479 19.4 9.4 24.7 9.3 2.5
1970 3731 1921 75 2159 708 18.4 9.5 20 10.6 3.5
1971 3556 1928 68 2190 773 17.2 9.3 19.1 10.6 3.7
1972 3258 1964 60 2282 845 15.6 9.4 18.5 10.9 4
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Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

0077

Year

2008

History

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