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In article <47scai$mjc@wolfe.wimsey.com> ufischer@fdva.com (Ullrich Fischer) writes:
>From: ufischer@fdva.com (Ullrich Fischer)
>Subject: Population Statistics
>Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 07:57:24 GMT

>In today's Vancouver SUN, there was an article which claimed that the
>single Canadian male population in the 24-34 year old range
>outnumbered the single  female population in that age range  by about
>20%, and that this was leading to a return to traditional family
>values.

<snip>

>If these demographic assertions are, in fact, true, what the heck happened 
>to all these women?  <snip>  Has the birth rate of females dropped relative 
>to that of males?  

This is nothing new.  The "missing" women in that age group are not missing, 
they are married to older men.  In ten years some of the men in who are now 24 
- 34 will be marrying younger women, and this will create a similar "surplus" 
in the next generation of young men.