Hello shikibobo,
My search returned the following results for statistics and charts for
the eight of the subjects on your list:
- premarital sexual activity
- birth rates to unwed mothers
- single parent households
- co-habitation
- SAT scores
- violent crime
- illiteracy
- high school dropout rate
The Book “The FIRST MEASURED CENTURY” contains a wealth of information
for statistical trends in the U.S. during the twentieth century.
"THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in
America, 1900–2000" by Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks and Ben J.
Wattenberg is a book about social change in the United States during
the twentieth century. It relies on statistical trends to tell that
awesome story.
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm
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Premarital Sexual Activity
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CHART:
Premarital Sexual Activity 1900-2000
Percentage of 19-year-old unmarried white women with sexual experience
The First Measured Century: Chapter 4 - page 6
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/pdf/ch4.pdf
“The chart indicates that at the beginning of the century, most
American women entered their first marriages as virgins. At the end of
the century, about one-quarter of them did. In the second half of the
century, some of this difference may have reflected the tendency
of women to marry at later ages than they did earlier in the century.
But from 1900 to 1960, the increase in premarital sex occurred at the
same time as a drop in the average age of first marriage.”
Premarital Sex:
“At the beginning of the century, very few women were sexually active
before marriage. By the end of the century, most of them were.”
The First Measured Century
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/4family2.htm
Chart Premarital Sexual Activity 1900-2000
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/4family2.htm#famchart2
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Birth Rates to Unwed Mothers
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“CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics provides a comprehensive
analysis of the trends and patterns in nonmarital childbearing from
1940 to the present. Based on data from birth certificates reported to
NCHS through the National Vital Statistics System, the report
describes the level of unmarried childbearing over the past 60 years,
by such characteristics as age, race, and ethnicity of the mother.”
CDC National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/00facts/nonmarit.htm
Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 1940-99. NVSR Vol. 48,
No. 16. 39. pp. (PHS) 2001-1120.
View or download here:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_16.pdf
Nonmarital Births in the Twentieth Century
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/4family10.htm
Chart: Page 22
Nonmarital Births 1900 - 2000
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/pdf/ch4.pdf
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Single Parent Households
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The following Census table provides the data under male household and
female household.
Table HH-1. Households, by Type: 1940 to Present
(Numbers in thousands)
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Internet release date: June 12, 2003
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/tabHH-1.pdf
Additional data about Families and Living Arrangements
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html
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Co-Habitation
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Chart on page 8
Cohabiting Couples: Percentage of all couples 1900-2000
Percentage of all couples
The First Measured Century
Chapter 4 :Family
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/pdf/ch4.pdf
“Cohabitation was considered disreputable (“living in sin”), often
illegal, and quantitatively unimportant throughout most of the
century. It became legal around 1970 with the removal of statutory
restraints such as false registration laws, which prevented unmarried
couples from checking into a hotel, and customary restraints, such as
the refusal of landlords to rent to unmarried couples. As the chart
indicates, by 1998, more than 7 percent of all American couples were
cohabiting. Their actual numbers increased eightfold, from 523,000
couples in 1970 to 4.2 million in 1998.”
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/4family3.htm
Chart
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/4family3.htm#famchart3
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SAT scores
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Table 2: Average SAT Scores of Entering College Classes, 1967-2002*
Page 7
Source : College Board
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2002/pdf/CBS2002Report.pdf
Average SAT Scores of Entering College Classes, 1967-2003
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2003/pdf/table2.pdf
“SAT scores increased from 1950's - 1960's And have been declining
ever since.”
http://www.rpi.edu/~verwyc/Chap6TM.htm
"If you looked at the bell curve prior to April 1994, it would not
have had a bell shape." Apparently, prior to 1950 the average of both
sections was 500, however it gradually shifted over time to the point
where similar scores on either section did not denote similar verbal
and mathematical abilities.”
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/nique/issues/fall1995/sep22/campus6-s.html
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Illiteracy
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Percentage of persons 14 years old and over who were illiterate
(unable to read or write in any language), by race and nativity: 1870
to 1979
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/historicaldata/illiteracy.asp
PBS provides a graph of U.S. illiteracy rates from 1920-2000
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/us/us_well.html
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High School Dropout Rates
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High School Dropout Rates by Sex and Race/Ethnicity, 1960–2001
Source: InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779196.html
The National Center for Education provides this data from 1972-2000.
Dropout Rates in the United States: 2000
“This report is the 13th in a series of National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates.
It presents data on rates in 2000, the most recent year for which data
are available, and includes time series data on high school dropout
and completion rates for the period 1972 through 2000. In addition to
extending time series data reported in earlier years, this report
examines the characteristics of high school dropouts and high school
completers in 2000.”
National Center for Education
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/droppub_2001/index.asp
Download, view and print the report as a pdf file.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002114.pdf
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Violent Crime
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CRIME- Homicides
“Homicides increased sharply during the first third of the century and
then declined to a lower level during the second third. The homicide
rate escalated to new peaks during the final third and then declined
sharply in the last decade of the century.”
Source: PBS
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/12crime1.htm
Chart of U.S. Homicide Rate 1900-2000
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/12crime1.htm#crimchart1
CRIME – Robberies
“Robberies increased rapidly from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s and
remained at a high level until the last decade of the century, when a
sharp downturn ensued.”
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/12crime2.htm
Chart of rate of U.S. robberies 1900-2000
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/12crime2.htm#crimchart2
Table:
National Crime Victimization Survey Violent Crime Trends, 1973-2002
Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/viortrdtab.htm
Selected Charts:
This electronic file http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/charts.pdf
contains full size color trend charts suitable for overheads or
handouts. The charts included are --
Four measures of serious violent crime
Property crime rates
Violent crime rates by sex of victim
Drug abuse violation arrests by age
Homicide rates
Rape rates
Serious violent crime by perceived age of offender
Homicide victimization rates by age of victim
Correctional populations
State prison population by offense type
Prisoners on death row
Executions
Direct expenditure by level of government
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/charts.pdf
Homicide trends in the U.S.
Homicide victimization, 1950-2000
Homicide rate per 100,000 population
Estimated number of homicides
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm
Graph
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm
Other crime statistics:
http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/detail/crime.htm#violent_crime1
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvictgen.htm
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Additional information that may interest you
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You may purchase the report by David Barton which provides the
statistics you require:
“Specialty Research Associates, under the direction of David Barton,
has released a report entitled America: To Pray or Not to Pray which
uses over 100 pages of graphs and statistical analysis to prove that
crime, venereal disease, premarital sex, illiteracy, suicide, drug
use, public corruption, and other social ills began a dramatic
increase after the Engel vs. Vitale Supreme Court decision was made in
1962 which banned school prayer.”
If you would like a copy of America: To Pray or Not to Pray?, send
$7.95 to Specialty Research Associates, P.O. Box 397, Aledo, TX 76008.
All of the figures and statistics compiled in this book are taken from
data made available by the Department of Health and Human Services,
the Center for Disease Control, Statistical Abstracts of the United
States, Vital Statistics of the United States, the U.S. Department of
Commerce, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other official sources.
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0124_When_America_stopped.html
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Search criteria:
I searched for the data at Government websites such as the U.S. Census
Bureau, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Education, and
the National Center for Health Statistics.
I hope the above information helps you in your research.
Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga |
Clarification of Answer by
bobbie7-ga
on
27 Dec 2006 13:51 PST
Hello again shikibobo,
A new report was updated statistics related to the first part of your
question about "premarital sex" was just published.
According to a Guttmacher Institute report published December 19, 2006
in the January/February issue of Public Health Reports, about 95% of
U.S. residents have premarital sex by age 44.
Excerpt:
About 95% of U.S. residents have premarital sex by age 44, according
to a Guttmacher Institute report published Tuesday in the
January/February issue of Public Health Reports, the AP/Chicago
Tribune reports (Crary, AP/Chicago Tribune, 12/19). Lawrence Finer,
director of domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute, and
colleagues used statistics from the 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 CDC
National Survey of Family Growth, which asked about 40,000 U.S.
residents ages 15 to 44 about their sexual behavior (Jayson, USA
Today, 12/20). About 33,000 of people who were surveyed were women.
The study found that 99% of the respondents said they had sex by age
44 and 95% had done so before marriage. In addition, the study found
that women were as likely as men to engage in premarital sex.
According to Finer, at least 91% of women born between 1950 and 1978
said they had premarital sex by age 30, and 88% of women born in the
1940s said they had premarital sex prior to age 44 (AP/Chicago
Tribune, 12/19).?
...
"The data clearly show that the majority of older teens and adults
have already had sex before marriage, which calls into question the
federal government's funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage
programs for 12- to 29-year-olds.?
Source:
Kaiser Network, Dec 20, 2006
Title: ?About 95% of U.S. Residents Have Premarital Sex, Guttmacher Report Says,?
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=41772
Or
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_repro_recent_reports.cfm?dr_cat=2&show=yes&dr_DateTime=12-20-06#41772
I hope this helps!
Bobbie7
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