Abstract
This study is based on records obtained from the 1910 census schedules concernig age, duration of marriage, and occupation of husband, for urban and rural women of native white parentage. The women are grouped into six urban and three rural classes on the basis of the husband's occupation. Because of certain limitations of the data the study is confined to the 17,876 women who married between 1900 and 1905. Analysis of the age at marriage distributions for these women leads to the following conclusions: (1) the women of the urban population married later than those of the rural, but the women of the three "lowest" urban classes married earlier than those of the "highest" rural class; (2) for both the urban and the rural classes age at marriage increses with "rising" social status, and the increase is largest between the classes differing most in social status; ( the age at marriage for certain classes is lower than that of the most nearly comparable English classes; (4) the direct relation of age at marriage and social status accounts in part for the inverse relation between the fertility and social status of the classes.
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