नमूना विवरण

The table provides comparable data on religious and civil marriage in Australia between 1960 and 2000. Broadly summarizing, as the years went on, people tended to get married later. Additionally, while the religious marriages category reached the peak before declining, the latter category experienced a continuous increase over the period, becoming the more common kind of marriage at the end. Commencing at 8 thousand cases in 1960, the number of civil weddings increased by 4 thousand each of the first two decades, after which it surged sharply from 16 thousand cases to 23 thousand cases in 1990, and ended at 40 thousand cases in 2000. In comparison, religious marriage category witnessed an upward trend during the first twenty years, with 25 thousand cases recorded at the initial year 1960, going up to 28 thousand cases in 1970, and even doubling from its 1960 level with 50 thousand religious weddings. After that, it had a plummet of 18 thousand cases in 1990 before rising to 34 thousand cases in 2000. In terms of age, both brides and bridegrooms became progressively older over the forty-year period, showing a pattern towards older marriages. In 1960, the age of the bridegroom was 24 on average, which was slightly higher compared with 21 for the bride. After forty years, bridegrooms consistently remained two or three years older than brides, despite the figure for both groups experiencing increases