Canadian Vital Statistics - Marriage Database

Probability of ever marrying of person, proportion

Probability of ever marrying refers to a summary indicator of the quantum or intensity of nuptiality. It is derived from the period first-marriage table, which is a demographic model representing the trajectory of an hypothetical cohort that would experience, at each age, the age-specific first-marriage rates observed in a given year, and in the absence of mortality and migration before marriage.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Percentage