title: Estimating the incidence of widow and widower re-marriages in India from census data.
abstract: Summary   In this paper we develop a method for estimating the incidence of widow and widower re-marriages from the current marital status data given in a census or survey. The method basically consists of reversing the procedure of estimating adult mortality from information on widowhood status. The method is applied to the all-India data from the Census of 1971. The principal result is that about one-third of the ever widowed women and slightly fewer than two-thirds of the ever widowed men were currently remarried in 1971. Similar application of the method to earlier censuses, and to state-level data, may provide answers to some of the riddles in Indian sociology.
authors.affiliation: a      Graduate student at the Population Studies Center   ,  University of Pennsylvania   ,  Philadelphia ,  Pa ,  19104 ,    U.S.A.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kanbargi