Further to the answer to question S2W-244 by Hugh Henry on 4 June 2003, how many (a) births, (b) births outside marriage, (c) births to tee…

Almost all the information requested can be found on the website of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The numbers of (a) births, (b) births outside marriage, (d) marriages, (f) divorces and (g) deaths broken down by gender, for each year from 2000 to 2007 (provisional figures), are available from Table P1 of the Registrar General’s “2007 Preliminary Return”, which was published on 13 March 2008, and can be found at:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/preliminary-return/2007-preliminary-return.html .
The other numbers which were requested are available, for 2006 and earlier years, from the Vital Events Reference Tables, which can be found via:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/index.html.
The following table provides the relevant table numbers and the provisional figures for 2007.

| 2006 and Earlier Years
- Relevant Vital Events Reference Table
| 2007
Provisional Figures

(c) Births to Teenagers
| Table 3.1
| 4,304

(e) Civil Marriages
| Table 7.6
| 15,480

(i) Average Age at First Marriage
| Table 7.3
| Men
- 32.2 years
Women
- 30.3 Years

(ii) Length of Marriage at Divorce
| Table 8.2
| Median
- 15 Years


The final figures for 2007 will be published on the GROS website in August. As is conventional with such data, the average age at first marriage is given separately for men and for women, and the median is used as an overall summary measure of the “average” length of marriage at divorce.