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The percentage of married people in Sia strikes one as remarkably 
small, and it appears to have decreased between 1923 (61 percent of 
adults) and 1957 (56.8 percent of persons 18 years of age and older). 
The percentage of single males is large. ‘This is due in part, of course, 
to the numerical preponderance of men and to monogamy, but not 
wholly, by any means: in 1957 there were 16 unmarried females be- 
tween the ages of 18 and 25, inclusive, as compared with 22 unmarried 
males in the same age range. And the percentage of single males has 
increased between 1923 (27.9) and 1957 (41.1) despite a decline in 
the excess of males over females (see table 5). Of the 37 bachelors 
in 1957, 15 were over 25; 13 were over 30; some never marry. 
Table 8 gives a comparison of the marital status in Sia in 1957 
with that of nearby pueblos in 1910. (The data for the latter are 
from “Indian Population in the United States and Alaska, 1910,” 
U.S. Census, 1915, p. 165). 
TasBLE 8.— Marital status: Sia compared with nearby pueblos for persons 15 years 
of age and older (in percentages) 
Male Female 
Pueblo Year tt 
Single | Married | Widowed | Single | Married | Widowed 
@ochiti.- 33.2 2a 5 eae 1910 23 70 7 12 72 16 
San Felipe a lacc aie s2 5 1910 43 40 16 21.5 63 16 
Santa) :Avgs soso) ee 8 1910 41 41 18 17 ‘4 11 
ae DomMingo= = —.aas- eee ee 1910 32 57 11 24 66 9.5 
a ee eee eee 1957 49 46 5 39 55 6 
Here, again, we note the high percentage of single persons in Sia; 
higher than in any of the other four pueblos, and in some instances 
much higher. The percentage of married women is smallest for Sia, 
but two other pueblos have smaller percentages of married men. The 
percentage of widowed is also smallest for Sia, which would appear to 
indicate that the widowed at Sia are more inclined to remarry than 
those in the other four pueblos. 
Table 9 gives a comparison of the marital status of persons 14 years 
and older in Sia for 1957 with that of the same age group in the State 
of New Mexico in 1950 (Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1953, 
p. 50). 
TaBLeE 9.— Marital status: Sia, 1957, compared with New Mexico, 1950, for persons 
14 years of age and over (in percentages) 
Males Females Both sexes 
Married | Single | Widowed- |Married | Single ow Married | Single | Widowed- 
divorced divorced divorced 
|] | | LT | | 
Gia Bae! 44 52 4 55 39 6 49 46 5 
New Mexico_--- 66 28 6 69 20 il 67 24 8 
