The relation between the date of marriage registration and the occupation of husband has little been reported. The present writer tried elsewhere to show that close connection can be found between the marriage registration and the pregnancy and birth of the first child, with the help of statistic data, in the part I of this series of our studies. The author's concern in this article lies in clearification of the relation between the marriage registration behavior and the participants' occupation, by the use of the statistic analysis in our first report, above mentioned. Each case is evaluated by marks, and the differentials between the occupations calculated by the average.
We selected Nishi-ku and Naka-ku, Nagoya City, as the area of investigation, with the 2672 samples from the former and 1250 from the latter. Reckoning backwards from the birth day of the first child, the samples gathered may be classified into the following four groups:
1) the cases where the marriage registration was filed, regardless of the wife's pregnancy;
2) the cases where the wife became pregnant during the wedlock but before the registration, by their failure to register, soon after their celebration;
3) the cases where the wife became pregnant during their cohabitation before the celebration; and
4) the cases where the child's birth preceded the celebration.
These four groups were subclassified into 16 smaller groups taking the following factors into considerations; the duration of unregistered wedlock and the question whether or not the birth registration of the first child preceded the marriage registration.
The next step of the author's analysis constitutes the redistribution of the smaller groups into nine stages for the evaluation of each case by giving marks according to its respective conditions. If, for example, the marriage registration is filed within two months after the celebration, and the registration is given regardless of wife's pregnancy, the case gets the highest mark of 50, while the case where the child's birth precedes the registration, makes the lowest mark-zero.
The numbers classified by occupation were entered into the table, drawn from the analysis and mark-evaluation, above mentioned, to strike the average of each occupation group, with the results as follow:
In both areas under our investigation, professionals and technicians got the highest mark; clerical and related workers, craftmen, production process workers, laborers, salesmen grading downward in this order. Such ranking corresponds to that of social stratification and social mobility on the occupation.
As to the statistic figures shown in percentage, the pregnancy during unregistered marriage amounted to 30 plus-minus 5% in the cases of professionals and technicians: in contrast therewith, in the cases of salesmen and craftmen, it mounted up to 50 plus-minus 5%. The pregnancy during the cohabitation, however, amounted only to 5% in each occupation, and its actual number was pretty small.
The percentage of a prospective legitimate child, in terms of the Family Registration Law, being born before the marriage registration by its parents and its birth registration filed within the period fixed by the law, is, in the case of professionals and technicians, 4-5%, and in the cases of salesmen and craftmen 10-13%.
The inductive statistical test of the data gained proved that there were significant differences among occupations, while no areal differences could be seen.
The foregoing analysis related to the date of marriage registration would lead to the affirmation of the existence of a common tendency, in terms of value judgment, conventional behavior and ethical standard regarding the registration behavior of birth and marriage, within one particular vocational group, due perhaps to the common environmental factors.
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