dimanche, octobre 08, 2006
  of Marriages and Religion  

i think it's tellable that this 'blog' is rather bizarre. so here's something else:
(i can't help it that weird things come to my mind, and ... well... judge for yourself)

Statistics on Marriages and Divorces 2005.pdf
from the Singapore Department of Statistics

with particular reference to:
Table A1.23, document page 34, pdf page 44.
Marriages under Women's Charter by Religion of Grooms and Brides, 2005

i wanted to see if there are more marriages within religion as compared to inter-religion, or perhaps, how strong is that association.

calculations:

Total number of same-religion marriages: 13340
Percentage of same-religion marriages across all religions:
13340/19402% = 70.1%

- within Christianity = 2625*2/(3859+3818)% = 68.4%
- within Buddhism = 6575*2/(8239+8556)% = 78.3%
- within Taoism/Confucianism = 786*2/(1330+1444)% = 56.7%
- within Hinduism = 581*2/(670+788)% = 79.7%
- within 'Other Religion' = 186*2/(601+423)% = 36.3%
- within 'No Religion' = 2587*2/(4346+4013)% = 61.9%

conclusion? the two are probably non-independent. but i wasn't able to compare it to the random rates of same-religion marriages based on religion distribution of the population.

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particularly surprised that 'normal' marriages are under Women's Charter. hm. pourquoi.
and also that muslim marriages are under Administration of Muslim Law Act.
'normal' divorces are then under Family Court and muslim divorces under Syriah Court.
hm hm hm
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sidenote:
that cool pdf file will return you the link to the hosted file whenever you try to Copy/Ctrl-c anything in the file. hm


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