Showing posts with label American Singles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Singles. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2015

Only 3% Of American Singles Are Worth Dating

By Andy Kiersz and Linette Lopez, Feb. 6, 2015, Businessinsider.com

In honor of Valentine's Day, Business Insider has figured out why so many Americans have no reason to celebrate.

It turns out only 3.1% of young American singles are "eligible" dates.

Before you get up in arms about how we came to this conclusion, understand that this was all done using numbers from 2013 American Community Survey microdata from the IPUMS project at the Minnesota Population Center. That means we started with a list of over 3 million records, and over 1 million of those records belonged to America's singles.

Read more:  www.businessinsider.com


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