[GSS] Age At First Marriage By Political Views

Using the GSS, I created three charts detailing historical distribution of political views and age at first marriage for each (and all) category of political views. I restricted the age of respondents to 18-40.

The question for political views was:

67a. We hear a lot of talk these days about liberals and conservatives. I'm going to show you a seven-point scale on which the political views that people might hold are arranged from extremely liberal - point 1 - to extremely conservative - point 7. Where would you place yourself on this scale?

The scale is the following (I grouped 1-3 and 5-7 for legibility):

1  EXTREMELY LIBERAL
2  LIBERAL
3  SLIGHTLY LIBERAL

4  MODERATE

5  SLGHTLY CONSERVATIVE
6  CONSERVATIVE
7  EXTRMLY CONSERVATIVE


For age at first marriage:

4a. If ever married: How old were you when you first married?


Historical distribution of political views from 1974 to 2012:

The mean of age at first marriage by year for each group of political views (1986-2006):

Mean of age at first marriage by year for all groups (1986-2006):