This series of charts offers several ways to examine how marriage rates for women have altered over time, age group, and country. In the first chart, it's possible to segregate information by age group, focusing solely on a single age group at one time, whilst comparing that age group between country and time period.
The second and third charts function best when used together, giving the ability to compare all age groups, countries, and time periods at once, however, these two charts can also be used as separate entities if the only desire is to examine a specific time period.
A question which cannot be answered by this series of charts is whether or not there are corresponding levels of divorce rates, which might imply the conclusion that women are still getting married just as much, but are not staying that way, instead of the conclusion that women simply aren't marrying at the rates and ages they used to marry at. To answer this question, it's possible to look to the United Nations vast online vault of data, using the search engine to see if they have a corresponding spreadsheet of divorce rates for these same countries. In fact, a quick search of the UN database shows that this spreadsheet has the exact information needed, and could be used to validate or invalidate the theory of correspondence between marriage rate decline and divorce rate increase.
I really liked your charts, especially the first one. The information is really surprising and its hard to believe that the comparison is only between a couple decades but how drastically things have changed! I'm amazed at the 20-24 age group between France then and now! Really cool idea.
ReplyDeleteA very nice use of several different charts. They're all very easy to read and understand while maintaining an aesthetic pleasure. As Mallory said above, it's really cool to see how quickly things can change in a short period of time.
ReplyDeleteI like that you have a lot of charts, and that they're all easy to follow. It would have been really interesting to see this lined up with some economic data, as stuff like "social expectations" and the decline of religion might be a little too difficult to measure.
ReplyDeleteYour serial charts look great, the information in the charts are easy to read and understand. And I like the way that use chart with comparison which make the data more clear and easy to understand the means. Good job, and hope you can write a good final project in marriage.
ReplyDeleteWell done! I liked that you used multiple charts for this update, really helped to illustrate your point and shows you`ve put a lot of effort into the story already. My one note would be to expand the size of your first chart slightly to remove the grey bar along its side. The whole chart is visible so having a scroll bar along its side is a little distracting and confusing as it seems there should be something to scroll down to. But overall very well done!
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