Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1972-1973 — Page 106

(6)

(7)

(8)

(୨)

(10)

(11)

Number of Marriages performed at Licensed Places of

Public

Worship

Percentage of Total

parties of Chinese

race

parties

already married to each other

Number of

Number of Marriages between

Marriages

between

Percentage of column

(8) to

column (7)

Number of

'new'

Marriages i.e. column

(see para.

164)

(2) minus column (8)

Total

Amount

of Fees

collected

(1)

(2)

(3).

(4)

(5)

98

Year

Percentage of Total

Number of

Number of Marriages Marriages performed registered at Marriage Registries

$

1963-64

1964-65

12,700

11,262 88.68%

1,438 11.32%

12,406

950

7.66%

11,750 154,116

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

17,846 15,980

89.54%

1,866 10.46%

17,568

1,517 8.64%

16,329 | 216,097

1967-68

16,894

15,347 90.84%

1,547 9.16%

16,511

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

1969-70

20,326

18,453 90.79%

1,873 9.21%

19,828

2,593 13.08%

17,733 246,213

1970-71

19,953

18,135 90.89%

1,818

9.11%

19,399

2,710 13.97%

17,243

248,440

1971-72

29,487

26,999 91.56%

2,488

8.44%

28,784

4,196 14.58%

25,291 | 360,690

1972-73

26,443 24,106 91.15%

2,337

8.85%

25,983

2,662 10.25%

23,781

325,555

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TABLE XXXI

MARRIAGE REGISTRY

AGES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AT TIME OF MARRIAGE 1972-73