No subject

   From the 1861 census (which gives details of proportions ever-married,
convertible to mean marriage ages), Anderson has inferred that in
agricultural registration districts under 15 per cent 'traditional' (i.e.
where labourers were abundant and correspondingly less of the labour force
consisted of farmers, their relatives, and servants), the mean age at
marriage was 26.6 (males) and 25.6 (females). 

   Conversely, in districts more than 45 per cent 'traditional', they were
28.4 and 27.0 respectively, indicating differences in marriage ages of
nearly two years (for males) and seventeen months (females) respectively.
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