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Title: My Family History in Numbers
Post by: chiddicks on Monday 05 April 21 13:24 BST (UK)
Who doesn’t love a good statistic. Here I have analysed naming patterns, birth patterns, marriage patterns and a whole lot more! So many amazing facts and figures I was amazed with some of the answers. The more I delved into it the more obsessed I became and I'm not even a numbers geek!



https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2021/04/05/my-family-tree-in-numbers/
Title: Re: My Family History in Numbers
Post by: chiddicks on Saturday 17 April 21 15:14 BST (UK)
The stats showed I had 22 people on my tree who had not been assigned a gender, so mistakes and anomalies like this have been highlighted and corrected, so it was a worthwhile task for that purpose alone.
Title: Re: My Family History in Numbers
Post by: Erato on Saturday 17 April 21 17:07 BST (UK)
"The average age for having children was surprisingly high, 32 male and 29 female"

29 sounds about right.  Generation time is often expressed as the age of the mother at the birth of the average child.  The average child is not a woman's first child.  Back when I took a course in demography many years ago, this was reckoned to be 28.5 years in European countries and the United States in modern times.
Title: Re: My Family History in Numbers
Post by: chiddicks on Saturday 17 April 21 19:49 BST (UK)
"The average age for having children was surprisingly high, 32 male and 29 female"

29 sounds about right.  Generation time is often expressed as the age of the mother at the birth of the average child.  The average child is not a woman's first child.  Back when I took a course in demography many years ago, this was reckoned to be 28.5 years in European countries and the United States in modern times.



I think this certainly highlights my own preconceived ideas on my own tree facts and led me to uncover lots of surprising results that I would not have found had I not done this.