Show census releases figures on marriage clarriage the bureau of the census has recently released some interesting figures on marriages which indicate that more than half of the men who ever marry do so before the age of 25 years and the women before the age of 22 years while for men who marry during their lifetime life time the estimated median age at it first marriage Is years and the corresponding figure for women is years the median age at first marriage has changed very little in half a century as computed from date for each census from 1890 to 1910 19 10 what little chanze chance has occurred indicates a slow trend toward earlier marriage the median age at first marriage for men based on censuses from 1890 to 1930 dropped from 2 to 1 3 for women the trend is less definitely marked |