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SteveDallas · 12-05-2004, 07:34 PM

Interesting point wolf, though I have to say that having been born in NC and lived there till I was 21, there was a fair amount of shacking up.

If we take the divorce rate of 2.4 / 1000 population in MA and 4.1 / 1000 population in TX that was given above we can calculate that the divorce rate in TX is 1.71 times that in MA.

According to the US Census web site, for the 2000 census, the # of unmarried-partner households (this includes m/f, m/m, and f/f) divided by the total state population is 0.0149 for TX and 0.0201 for MA. In this case the rate for MA is 1.35 times that in TX.

This is not very helpful because there is nothing about the rate at which such households "divorice."

12-05-2004, 07:34 PM	#11
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Interesting point wolf, though I have to say that having been born in NC and lived there till I was 21, there was a fair amount of shacking up. If we take the divorce rate of 2.4 / 1000 population in MA and 4.1 / 1000 population in TX that was given above we can calculate that the divorce rate in TX is 1.71 times that in MA. According to the US Census web site, for the 2000 census, the # of unmarried-partner households (this includes m/f, m/m, and f/f) divided by the total state population is 0.0149 for TX and 0.0201 for MA. In this case the rate for MA is 1.35 times that in TX. This is not very helpful because there is nothing about the rate at which such households "divorice."