Age at marriage

[Michele B.]

Bonjour! I would like to know how many girls were married before the age of 14. Although age is the result of a calculation, is it possible to set up search criteria? Thank you!

[A Ginn]

Hi,

If you just want a count, you should be able to use the Statistics Report and set the criteria to Show Age at First Marriage. The matrix that appears will be a summary and breakdown of the ages and the number of males and females for each age. To see who the people are you can double-click any of the lines and the list will appear at the right, but you would have to do this expansion separately for each age in the list.

Alan

[Michele B.]

Thank you very much Alan! It works very well. Have a nice week end!

[A Ginn]

I'm glad this helped. I should have mentioned that age calculations are available for the Find function under Attributes. For example:

Find - Conditions: [Attributes - Age at First Marriage less than 14] AND [Attributes - Sex is Female].

There doesn't seem to be an Age at Death attribute, but the search criteria for that are Attributes - Age [whatever condition you want] AND Attributes - Living No.

The Statistics Report has an Age at Death but it doesn't seem to work correctly. It uses Age equals [whatever number is selected in the breakdown] AND Living Yes, which 1) finds only living people and 2) returns counts in the age breakdown that don't equal the number of matches or that may not even have a match in the database. The correct condition for death statistics appears to be Show Age Current For people who are Not Living.