(2,950, as against 3,693). However, there is also in the 1911 Census a suspicious increase in the number of females recorded aged 20-24 as compared with those aged 15-19 (3,062 as against 2,750). This must be connected with marriage, with all married women being enumerated but at least some unmarried young women not being recorded.5 This feature of an increase in recorded females aged 20-24 does not appear in the 1921 Census, and whatever fears villagers may have had about their teenage daughters in 1911 seem to have been partly overcome by 1921. However, as Tables 5 and 6 show, both in 1911 and 1921, the totals of females recorded are noticeably lower than males for ages below the normal age of marriage. This can only be due to under-reporting of unmarried girls. The annual live birth rate of girls in Northern District in both 1911 and 1921 is likely to have been about 1,250. The figures for females recorded at ages above about 20 must be seen as essentially accurate, in both censuses, given the essential similarity of the two sets of figures.
Assuming these adjusted birth-rate figures are approximately correct, then the mortality figures for Northern District are, very approximately, as shown in Table 7, which is compiled from Tables 3 and 4.5 It seems likely that, of all live births, one quarter were dead by about age 7-8, half by 22-24, and three-quarters by 48 (males) or 54 (females), in both 1911 and 1921. At the same time, they show about 15% of all males, and 20% of all females, lived to the age of 60 or more. This is more or less in line with oral evidence. Table 8 shows the position in population pyramid form: the profile of the pyramid is typical of an undeveloped society.
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