Divorce Statistics: Divorced and Separated Marital Status
According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau, the divorce inforgraphic below illustrates the percentage of people who declare their marital status as divorced or separated.
The Census Bureau takes a Current Population Survey every March. The statistics are from March 2008, the latest census results released.
It’s surprising to note the drastic difference between the percentage of people divorced and the percentage of people separated.
This entire divorce population isn’t represented because remarried divorcees file under the married marital status. The numbers also don’t include people who have never been married.
Created by Total Divorce.
Tags: Divorce
I’m all for pretty graphs, but it’s more important that the data be correct.
The data has been completely misinterpreted.
For the column labeled “# who have been married,”what are the units? Thousands, presumably, assuming this data is for the entire US.
The column labeled “# who have been married” should be labeled “people who are currently married.” People in the 80’s are not unmarried because they’re swinging singles — they’re widowed.
Likewise, the divorce data doesn’t include those who divorced and remarried. So the “divorce rate” is all wrong.
The authors spent more time picking pretty colors than thinking about the data.