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 Percentage of Women Never Married at Age-group 20–24 Years 		
	Non-Maori	Māori
1876	46	
1886	62	
1896	75	
1906	73	
1916	70	
1926	70	29
1936	72	35
1946	60	43
1956	43	39
1966	39	33
1976	38	33
1986	64	70
1996	77	86
2006	81	86
2013	80	87

Sources: Statistics New Zealand, 2013 Census; Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats, The New Zealand family from 1840: a demographic history. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007, table 2.1

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