In a prospective manner, I tabulated the incidence and type of first marriages occurring at each age for all women from age 18 through the end of the register extract in 2007. This means that for the cohort of women born between 1950 and 1957 I had full information on the experience of first marriage from birth until age 50; for the 1958 to 1967 birth cohorts I observed all first marriages until age 40; and for the 1968 to 1977 birth cohorts I observed all first marriages until age 30. Continue reading →