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Marriages and Divorces--Number and Rate, by State: 1990 to 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0121)

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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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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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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,

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 54, No. 20, July 21, 2006, and prior reports.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 54, No. 20, July 21, 2006, and prior reports.

For more information:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm

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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. Data are counts of marriages performed, except as noted.
  2. Based on total population residing in area; population enumerated as of April 1 for 1990 and 2000; estimated as of July 1 for all other years.
  3. Includes annulments. Includes divorce petitions filed or legal separations for some counties or States.
  4. U.S. total for the number of divorces is an estimate which includes states not reporting. Beginning 2000 divorce rates based solely on the combined counts and populations for reporting states and the District of Columbia.
  5. Some figures for marriages are marriage licenses issued.

Headnotes

[By place of occurrence. See Federal Register Notice below table. See Appendix III]

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table: [61, 17]

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State Number (1,000) Rate 1,000 population 2 Number (1,000) Rate per 1,000 population 2
1990 2000 2004 2005 1990 2000 2004 2005 1990 2000 2004 2005 1990 2000 2004 2005
United States 4 2443.489 2329.0 2279 2230 9.8 8.3 7.8 7.5 1182 (NA) (NA) (NA) 4.7 4.1 3.7 3.6
Alabama 43.05 45 42.536 43.308 10.6 10.3 9.41594822911 9.52174282984 25.28 23.5 22.405 22.076 6.1 5.4 4.95966522647 4.85365278266
Alaska 5.671 5.6 5.594 5.494 10.2 8.9 8.51661150306 8.28341522767 2.921 2.7 2.829 3.861 5.5 4.4 4.30702430142 5.82130800765
Arizona 5 36.842 38.7 37.882 37.513 10 7.9 6.59313424326 6.3015212312 25.096 21.6 24.403 24.535 6.9 4.4 4.2471953682 4.12144652274
Arkansas 36.02 41.1 36.806 35.094 15.3 16 13.3994800539 12.6432607464 16.765 17.9 16.874 16.578 6.9 6.9 6.14309695237 5.97253025174
California 237.135 196.9 227.486 227.935 7.9 5.9 6.34704354931 6.30453264462 127.967 (NA) (NA) (NA) 4.3 (NA) (NA) (NA)
Colorado 32.362 35.6 33.826 29.706 9.8 8.6 7.35586571903 6.3701738792 18.385 (NA) 20.23 20.504 5.5 (NA) 4.39925393177 4.39689103949
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Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and
National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 54, No. 20, July 21, 2006, and prior reports.

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Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

0121

Year

2008

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