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...almost 15 years, Nigerian officials have avoided taking a census for fear that religious passions would be inflamed by the probable discovery that Muslims, not Christians, now make up a majority of the population. No matter. Last week violence exploded anyway after a student in the northern city of Kafanchan criticized the Koran. Ensuing clashes between Muslim and Christian students led to a week of turmoil that left 13 dead, countless injured, 489 arrested and a trail of burned property, including twelve churches and two mosques in five cities. When peace was restored, officials blamed the unrest on "misguided elements...
Councilor Alice Wolf noted that the past decade's censuses have shown a steady decrease in the city's population, from about 95,000 people in 1980 to about 87,000 in last year's census. "It seems almost impossible to me that there would be more rental units now than there were then. Where would they put them?" she asked, adding that condominium conversions have reduced the number of rentals tremendously in recent years...
...women than early marriage. More than half of all women now work, and the median age of a woman at her first marriage has increased by two years in the past decade, a huge jump compared with the typically glacial pace of demographic change. Last week, however, the Census Bureau announced a reversal in that trend. New findings show that the median age of first-time brides registered its first drop in 20 years, falling to 23.1 years from a record...
Sociologists caution that the decline is not a sign that women are choosing the altar over the office. Rather, it may be that women as a statistical group have now delayed marriage as long as possible. "At some point," says the Census Bureau's Steve Rawlings, "all these trends reach a peak period of stabilization...
...pattern that Lemon describes is more than one just of teenage pregnancy. In fact, the rate of births to black teenagers shows signs of declining. Yet the number of fatherless black families continues to grow, because a lower percentage of pregnant women are getting married. Census figures show 42% of single black women ages 18 to 29 have one or more children, vs. 7% among whites that age. "They are not following up pregnancy with marriage," says Chicago's William Wilson, "because joblessness among young black males in the inner city is so high that the male marriageable pool...