270 Duration of Marriage and Nimiber of Offs2)ring 
the latter period I have also taken from the census returns, and the results are 
shown in Table XXV. 
TABLE XXV. 
Distribution of Fertility amongst Wives Married at Age under 25 Years. 
Experience of New South Wales Census, 1901. 
Duration of Marriage 
Number 
of 
Children 
in 
Under 5 years 
5 and under 10 
years 
10 and under 15 
years 
15 and under 20 
years 
20 and under 25 
years 
Family 
Wives 
Total 
Children 
Wives 
Total 
Children 
Wives 
Total 
Children 
Wives 
Total 
Children 
Wives 
Total 
Children 
0 
6152 
1094 
757 
553 
332 
1 
813:3 
8133 
2230 
2230 
1039 
1039 
637 
637 
344 
344 
2 
3668 
7336 
4811 
9622 
1874 
3748 
928 
1856 
477 
954 
S 
597 
1791 
5567 
16701 
2931 
8793 
1402 
4206 
669 
2007 
4 
43 
172 
3124 
12496 
3603 
14412 
1967 
7868 
858 
3432 
5 
2 
10 
996 
4980 
3715 
18575 
2235 
11175 
1122 
5610 
6 
226 
1356 
2542 
15252 
2662 
15972 
1383 
8298 
'/ 
36 
252 
1233 
8631 
2570 
17990 
1548 
10836 
S 
2 
16 
422 
3376 
2063 
16504 
1735 
13880 
9 
118 
1062 
1125 
10125 
1670 
15030 
10 
38 
380 
539 
5390 
1368 
13680 
1 1 
7 
77 
200* 
2200 
652t 
7172 
13 
90* 
1080 
454t 
5448 
13 
50* 
650 
264t 
3432 
U 
29* 
406 
149t 
2086 
15 
74t 
1110 
16 
36t 
576 
17 
15t 
255 
18 
8t 
144 
Totals 
18595 
17442 
18086 
47653 
18279 
75345 
17050 
96059 
13158 
94294 
Average 
Family 
•94 
2-64 
4-12 
5-64 
7-17 
Per cent. 
without 
33 1 
6-05 
4-14 
3-24 
2-52 
issue 
Owing to the number of wives (4114) who had been married under 1 year, the 
statistics of under 5 years' duration of marriage were not used to determine the 
average number of offspring for the mean of that duration, but the actual result 
of 2-| years' duration, viz. 39G8 wives (563 without issue, 2570 with 1 child, 814 
with 2, and 21 with 3) having 4261 children, or an average of 1 07. The per- 
centage of childless women was 14'2. With this substitution the correlation 
* Estimated— Total 11 and over, 369. 
t Estimated — Total 11 and over, 1652. 
