| Sumario: | This article focuses on a study on the social class differences in frequency of marriage in Great Britain. Differential frequency of marriage is one of the complex factors affecting differential contribution made by each social class. A measure of the frequency in each social class that is applicable to available statistics of this country is the proportion of married men aged 45-54 per 1,000 occupied men of the same ages in each social class. On the other hand, the occupational classification of the 1911 Census is largely industrial in nature, while that of the subsequent censuses is occupational. Due to this difference, comparison of the numbers returned under occupational headings in the three censuses cannot be entirely satisfactory. However, occupations that have undergone no change in title or in allocation to social classes be selected from the three censuses. Likewise, this consideration leads to the preparation of a table of correspondence between the occupations recorded in the last three censuses and between the social classes to which they were assigned by the Registrar-General in his reports for 1911 and 1921. An examination of the proportion of married men shows that the frequency of marriage is greater in some social classes than in others and that there are great differences between the various occupations within each social class.
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