Content # Marriage This folder contains data behind the story [Marriage Isn’t Dead — Yet](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/marriage-isnt-dead-yet/). Source for all data is Decennial Census (years 1960 to 2000) and American Community Survey (years 2001-2012), via [IPUMS USA](https://usa.ipums.org/usa/cite.shtml). Except in the divorce file, figures represent share of the relevant population that has never been married (MARST == 6 in the IPUMS data). Note that in the story, charts generally show the share that have *ever* been married, which is simply 1 - n. In the divorce file, figures are share of the relevant population that is *currently* divorced, conditional on having ever been married. Variable names are as follows. Number in variable names are age ranges, so `all_2534` is the marriage rate for everyone ages 25 to 34. Header | Description ---|--------- `all` | Total (or all men/women in sex-specific files) `HS` | High school graduate or less (EDUCD < 65) `SC` | Some college (EDUCD >= 65 & <= 100) `BAp` | Bachelor's degree or more (EDUCD > 100) `BAo` | Bachelor's degree, no graduate degre (EDUCD > 100 & <= 113) `GD` | Graduate degree (EDUCD > 113) `White` | Non-Hispanic white `Black` | Black or African-American `Hisp` | Hispanic of any race `NE` | New England (REGION == 11) `MA` | Mid-Atlantic (REGION == 12) `Midwest` | Midwest (REGION == 21-23) `South` | South (REGION == 31-34) `Mountain` | Mountain West (REGION == 41) `Pacific` | Pacific (REGION == 42) `poor` | Family income in lowest 25% `mid` | Family income in middle 50% `rich` | Family income in top 25% `work` | Employed 50+ weeks prior year `nowork` | Not employed at least 50 weeks prior year `nokids_all` | No own children living at home `kids_all` | At least one own child living at home Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.