COMPARATIVE TABLE showing, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines, the number of Males and Females, and the number in every 100 living at different periods of age, who were Unmarried, Married, or Widowed, at the Censuses of 1861 and 1871 respectively.

AGES.	NUMBER.						NUMBER IN 100 LIVING.
	1861.			1871.			1861.			1871.
	Unmarried.	Married.	Widowed.	Unmarried.	Married.	Widowed.	Unmarried.	Married.	Widowed.	Unmarried.	Married.	Widowed.
MALES.
Under 15 years*	89,034	3		155,324			100.00	0.00		100.00
15 years to 20 years	15,152	69	5	25,912	62	3	99.51	0.45	0.04	99.75	0.24	0.01
20 years to 40 years	84,274	58,097	2,074	58,823	52,425	1,517	58.34	40.22	1.44	52.17	46.49	1.34
40 years and upwards	13,497	30,515	4,706	19,730	58,199	8,177	27.70	62.64	9.66	22.91	67.59	9.50
Age unspecified (not children)	427	156	49	193	118	10	67.56	24.68	7.76	60.12	36.76	3.12
Total	202,384	88,840	6,834	259,982	110,804	9,707	67.90	29.81	2.29	68.33	29.12	2.55
FEMALES.
Under 15 years*	88,991	7	1	153,128	3		99.99	0.01	0.00	100.00	0.00
15 years to 20 years	13,989	2,077	25	26,331	1,790	17	86.94	12.91	0.15	93.58	6.36	0.06
20 years to 40 years	15,264	64,260	2,346	23,112	71,072	3,713	18.64	78.49	2.87	23.61	72.60	3.79
40 years and upwards	829	18,108	4,238	2,010	38,072	9,892	3.57	78.14	18.29	4.02	76.18	19.80
Age unspecified (not children)	35	98	13	48	98	20	23.98	67.12	8.90	28.91	59.04	12.05
Total	119,108	84,550	6,623	204,629	111,035	13,642	56.64	40.21	3.15	62.14	33.72	4.14
Males over 25 years	73,883	85,443	6,772	58,640	107,785	9,664	44.48	51.44	4.08	33.30	61.21	5.49
Females over 20 years	16,128	82,466	6,597	25,170	109,242	13,625	15.33	78.40	6.27	17.00	73.80	9.20