Census data on marital status of ST population released

A total of 4,67,00,848 out of 10,45,45,716 Scheduled Tribes population are married, according to the Census data on marital status of ST population released today.
The married constitutes 44.7 per cent of the total STs population.
Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has published the 2011 Census data on the Marital Status of Scheduled Tribes persons for all States and Union Territories by age and sex, number of women, ever married women by present age, parity and total children ever born by sex, number of surviving children and total surviving children by sex, number of births last year by sex and birth order etc.

According to the 2011 Census data on marital status of ST population released today, percentage of widowed is 4.6 per cent and separated is 0.4 per cent.
The percentage of divorced constitute 0.2 per cent. In comparison to 2001 Census, the percentage of widowed, divorced, separated has increased in most of the age groups.
More than half of the marriages have taken place in the age group of 20-24 years. The percentage of marriage taken place in the above age group is 57.2 per cent. The data also shows that for 72 per cent of the STs female, the marriage age is above 18 years.

Total numbers of ever married Women has increased among all the ages. It increased remarkably in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, West Bengal and Assam, an official release said.
Total children ever born in all the ages have decreased in all the States/UTs. Total number of surviving children has increased in almost all the States/UTs in comparison to the corresponding figures of 2001 Census.