Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1969-1970 — Page 102

TABLE XXX

MARRIAGE REGISTRY

COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS YEARS

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

Number of

Number of

Year

Number of Marriages Marriages performed

registered at Marriage Registries

Percentage of Total

Number of

Marriages performed at Licensed Places of

Public

Worship

Marriages

Number of

Marriages

between

Percentage of Total

between

parties of

parties

already

Chinese

each other

column (7)

married to

Percentage of column

(8) to

Number of

'new'

marriages i.e, column

Total

Amount

of Fees

collected

race

(2) minus column (8)

(see para.

154)

1960-61

1961-62

11,045

11,837 10,592 89.48%

9,889 89.53%

1,156 10.47%

10,684

493

4.61%

10,552 132,670

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%

1,375 10.91%

12,262

1,195

9.75% 11,413 155,662

1965-66

15,533

13,911 89.56%

1,622 10.44%

15,228

1,307

8.58% 14,226 188,219

1966-67

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17,846

15,980 89.54%

1,866 10.46%

17,568

1,517

8.64% 16,329 216,097

1967-68

1968-69

16,894

15,347 90.84%

1,547 9.16%

20,492

18,681 91.11%

1,811 8.89%

1969-70

20,326 18,453 90.79%

1,873 9.21%

16,551

20,117

19,828

2,350 14.20% 14,544 209,217 2,125 10.56% 18,367 250,461

2,593 13.08% 17,733 246,213

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