My Family History in Numbers

[chiddicks]

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/

[chiddicks]

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.

[Erato]

"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.

[chiddicks]

"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.