How Has Marriage Changed in Recent Decades

question 93

Multiple Choice

How has marriage changed in recent decades?

• A)Educated Americans are marrying at an older age,having fewer children,but having them somewhat sooner.
• B)Educated American women,in particular,are waiting longer to marry.
• C)Educated Americans are marrying at an older age but having similar numbers of children as their parents.
• D)Educated American women are having fewer children at a somewhat sooner age than their mothers.

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Margin of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating a range within which the true value lies at a certain confidence level.

Probability

The extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.

Standard Deviation

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