Answer to Question #256935 in Accounting for Kavya

Question

Calculate Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM) using following data with the assumption that females for whom First Marriage have Occurred before the Age of 50 years: Age Group Total Female Population Never Married Female Population 15-19 56544053 45314779 20-24 53839529 16364674 25-29 50069757 4397542 30-34 43934277 1439770 35-39 42221303 770659 40-44 34892726 504866 45-49 30180213 362504 50-54 23225988 286189

Answer 1

Let's present the data in the form of a table and find the number of married women:

Next, find the middle of the interval and multiply the middle of the interval by the number of married women.

Find the total number of values for all intervals. And in order to find the average age of marriage, we divide the total sum of the product of the middle of the intervals and the number of married women by the total amount of married women and get the age of 35 years.