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Age-specific divorce rate

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Age-specific divorce rate  (AGE-SPECIFIC divorce rate)


A divorce rate1 may be calculated in different ways. The crude divorce rate2 gives the ratio of the number of divorces to the average population during a given period. The ratio of divorces to the number of married couples is sometimes computed and may be called the crude divorce rate of the married population. Ideally, however, the rate should be the ratio between the divorces taking place in a given period and the number of marriages at risk (134-2) of divorce during that period. But there is no accepted terminology. If divorces are tabulated by age of the divorced person or by duration of marriage, age-specific divorce rates4 or duration-specific divorce rates5 can be computed. Another index of divorce frequency is obtained by computing the number of divorces per new marriage6.
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