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1921 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table 70 : " Distribution of Families by Size".
No. of children under 16 years of age in family. | Married Men. | Married Women (enumerated with their husbands). | Widowers | Widows. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of families. | Propor- tion per 1,000. | No. of families. | Propor- tion per 1,000. | No. of families. | Propor- tion per 1,000. | No. of families. | Propor- tion per 1,000. | |
Not stated | 1,030,661 | 138 | 830,391 | 119 | 232,948 | 363 | 301,651 | 186 |
0 | 2,196,439 | 294 | 2,055,334 | 294 | 304,274 | 474 | 1,013,597 | 625 |
1 | 1,716,418 | 230 | 1,639,261 | 235 | 50,928 | 79 | 144,857 | 89 |
2 | 1,139,226 | 152 | 1,095,512 | 157 | 27,694 | 43 | 80,907 | 50 |
3 | 657,683 | 88 | 635,908 | 91 | 14,334 | 22 | 43,913 | 27 |
4 | 371,484 | 50 | 360,566 | 52 | 7,282 | 11 | 22,208 | 14 |
5 | 204,487 | 27 | 199,126 | 29 | 3,190 | 5 | 9,747 | 6 |
6 | 100,883 | 13 | 98,646 | 14 | 1,173 | 2 | 3,536 | 2 |
7 | 40,442 | 5 | 39,597 | 6 | 347 | }1 | 1,000 | }1 |
8 | 12,856 | 2 | 12,550 | 2 | 90 | 271 | ||
9 | 3,529 | }1 | 3,432 | }1 | 42 | 58 | ||
10 | 750 | 727 | 8 | 13 | ||||
11 | 158 | 151 | 1 | | | |||
12 | 27 | 25 | | | | | ||
13 | 8 | 8 | - | | | | ||
Total. | 7,475,051 | 1,000 | 6,971,234 | 1,000 | 642,311 | 1,000 | 1,621,758 | 1,000 |
Average No. of children per family. | 1.27 | 1.32 | 0.32 | 0.37 | ||||
Average age of parent. | 44.8 | 42.5 | 62.4 | 60.5 | ||||
Average age of all children. | 7.9 | 7.9 | 10.4 | 9.9 | ||||
Average age of youngest child. | 5.7 | 5.7 | 9.3 | 8.7 |