Path: utzoo!attcan!darkover!nebulus!contact!djcl
From: djcl@contact.uucp (woody)
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: Re: The Woman Shortage ... let's make it official
Keywords: Earth needs women
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.163744.9057@contact.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 90 16:37:44 GMT
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Reply-To: djcl@contact.UUCP (Woody Tobias Sr)
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OOPS (i wonder how one draws egg on face... !*(= ) anyway, the figure (from
mentions on soc.singles) should actually be 122 unmarried males per 100
females (not the butt-backwards figure i gave last posting).

In any case, let's look at some stuff that was reverse-engineered from
some U.S. Bureau of the Census numbers...
 
for ages 18+, we have:  Unmarried Males 27916 < 35563 Unmarried Females
(that is, based on total # minus marrieds, in closest 10^3s)
 
So it sounds like a man shortage here... or not. Let's break this data
up a bit (again, in nearest 10^3s):
 
Age      Unmarried    Unmarried
Range    Males        Females
18-19     3534    >    3270
20-24     7745    >    6458
25-29     4669    >    3723
30-34     2960    >    2688
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
35-44     3079    <    3654
45-54     1752    <    2738
55-64     1666    <    3534
65-74     1360    <    4553
75+       1151    <    4944
 
So it looks like there is a woman shortage, at least until the age range
nto the 40s or more.
 
However, there are other studies which indicate that women are quite
unlikely to marry if they haven't done so by their 30s, so there's
another complicating factor.
 
Other statistics indicate that women are more likely to get married
than men are, also. I won't go into too much detail here, suffice to
say that this falls under percentages of people who have ever married.

Anyway, to make a long story even longer, it seems to switch around
as you get older... i hope i got this straight this time...