This is a study of changes in age-specific marriage rates, age distributions of unmarried women, and trends in marriages and marriage rates for 1940-63. An anlysis is made of the differences in trends of marriage rates by sex, age, and marital status between 1960 and 1963. Also, a description and classification are presented of the types of nonsampling errors found in the marriage statistics for 1963, with estimates of the proportions of cases affected by nonresponse and items not appearing on some record forms.

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