Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1968-1969 — Page 103

$

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Number of

Year

Number of

Number of Marriages Marriages performed registered at Marriage Registries

Percentage of Total

Number of Marriages performed at Licensed Places of

Marriages

Number of

between

Marriages

parties

Percentage of Total

between

already

Public

Worship

parties of Chinese

race

married to each other

Percentage of column

(8) to

Number of

'new'

marriages i.e. column

(11)

Total

Amount

of Fees

collected

(9)

(10)

column (7)

(2) minus

column (8)

(see para.

154)

Not

1959-60

9,689

8,776 90.58%

913

9.42%

9,292

116,934

available

1960-61

11,045

9,889 89.53%

1,156 10.47%

10,684

493

4.61%

10,552 132,670

1961-62

11,837 10,592 89.48%

1,245 10.52%

11,502

950

8.26%

10,887 140,626

1962-63

11,187 9,938 88.84%

1,249 11.16%

10,909

1,024

9.39%

10,163 134,744

1963-64

12,700 11,262 88.68%

1,438 11.32%

12,406

950

7.66% 11,750 154,116

1964-65

12,608 11,233 89.09%

10.91%

1965-66

15,533 13,911 89.56%

1966-67

17,846

15,980 89.54%

1967-68

16,894

15,347 90.84%

1,375

1,622 10.44%

1,866 10.46% 17,568

1,547 9.16%

12,262

1,195

15,228

1,307

9.75% 11,413 155,662

8.58%

1,517 8.64% 16,329 216,097

14,226 188,219

:

16,551

2,350

14.20% 14,544 209,217

1968-69

20,492

18,681 91.11%

1,811

8.89%

20,117

2,125

10.56% 18,367 250,461

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TABLE XXXI

MARRIAGE REGISTRY

AGES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AT TIME OF MARRIAGE 1968-69