Talk:Divorce demography

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[edit] Internationalization

Why is this page limited to 45 countries? Ningbojoe 22:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

47 now. I expect it's because not every country tracks divorce statistics, or is willing to share information with researchers. It could also be plain old laziness on the part of the researchers, too. Or perhaps the statistics are out there, waiting for you to find them and add them here. Get cracking!—dragfyre 04:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japan

Can anyone please make clear what is the divorce rate of Japan. The two figures on the same website are very different.

http://www.divorcerate.org/divorce-rate-japan.html

http://www.divorcereform.org/gul.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by San narula (talk • contribs)

[edit] Misleading statistics

I think this page needs a bit more explanation as to what the percentages mean- it can be very misleading to simply say that x% of marriages end in divorce. I think this link explains it best

A. . . if one assumes a continuation of recent divorce trends, about 4 out of 10 first marriages to the youngest cohort may eventually end in divorce. Alternatively, if one assumes a return to the pattern of divorce during the 1975 to 1980 period, 5 out of 10 first marriages may eventually end in divorce (Current Population Reports, P23-180, 1992, p. 5),

I've added the {{npov}} because I feel this is poorly represented. --Wafulz 21:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Agreed that this page needs way more explanation before it's fit to be called accurate. One big thing that stands out for me is that the 54.8% listed for the United States seems to be in direct contradiction with the following statement made under the Statistics section of the Divorce article:

...all marriages that eventually end in divorce peaked in the United States at about 41% around 1980, and has been slowly declining ever since, standing by 2002 at around 31%.

I'm thinking there is a huge gap of methodology between this article and the Divorce article, and my impression is that the latter seems to produce somewhat more reasonable and well-explained statistics. Any thoughts about this? I'm far from being a statistics champ, just wanting to find some accurate information on this topic... —dragfyre 04:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rural/Urban Divide

Can you expand the article adding the percentaje of divorces in cities and in countryside pardon my poor english. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.172.95.47 (talk)

[edit] Who Gets Divorced?

This page just starts to approach the idea of who gets divorced. For example: for years I've heard the statistic that half of marriages in the US end in divorce. But that doesn't say anything about the prevalence of divorce in the population... how many people have or will eventually be divorced? With a sample population of 100 people, if some small group intermarry and divorce multiple times you can end up with a 50% divorce rate while only a few people actually experience divorce. This survey seems to show that about 30% of the US population actually have experienced divorce: http://sda.berkeley.edu/D3/GSS2000/Docyr/gss20001.htm#divorce —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.19.6.125 (talk)

[edit] possible sources for data

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.250.122 (talk) 19:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)