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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Future Child. 2015 Fall;25(2):89–109. doi: 10.1353/foc.2015.0014

Table 1.

Women’s Age-Specific Rates of First Marriage and Divorce by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity

Panel A. Marriage
Age White Black Asian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Native Alaskan Hispanic, Total Hispanic, U.S. born Hispanic, foreign born
15–19     8.7   5.0     8.5 20.3 16.7 13.1 32.6
20–24   58.9 23.0   41.4 53.5 59.1 50.4 81.3
25–29 115.6 43.0 133.7 76.6 81.0 75.9 89.2
30–34 130.6 47.6 152.5 74.9 87.4 83.0 92.1
35–39 123.0 44.6 129.1 70.5 80.4 72.7 86.8
40–44 111.6 39.4 100.5 51.8 77.9 72.6 82.2

Panel B. Divorce
Age White Black Asian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Native Alaskan Hispanic, Total Hispanic, U.S. born Hispanic, foreign born

20–24 48.44 40.13 12.23 63.61 26.79 36.74 16.13
25–29 38.80 44.29 13.23 52.02 26.71 40.43 15.31
30–34 31.60 44.43 15.95 40.15 25.03 37.09 16.83
35–39 29.66 41.20 12.98 41.58 23.70 36.31 16.43
40–44 26.33 38.86 13.07 48.60 21.47 30.15 16.78

Source: Authors’ computations from the 2008–12 American Community Survey, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

Note: Rates are calculated as the number of marriages per 1,000 unmarried women and number of divorces per 1,000 married women.