4-10 Marital Status of Population by Sex and Region
Data in this table are obtained from the Sample Survey on Population changes in 1997. The sampling fraction is 1.016‰。
Unit: person
Region	Population Aged 15 and Over			Never Married
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
National Total	932395	468910	463485	182133	108255	73878
Beijing	10730	5343	5387	2052	1172	880
Tianjin	7744	3818	3926	1209	671	538
Hebei	49365	24806	24559	8829	5122	3706
Shanxi	23232	11805	11427	4313	2603	1710
Inner Mongolia	17779	9129	8649	3700	2199	1501
Liaoning	34054	17060	16994	5813	3368	2445
Jilin	21123	10605	10517	3795	2164	1631
Heilongjiang	29767	15081	14685	5744	3263	2482
Shanghai	12589	6176	6413	2004	1183	821
Jiangsu	56969	27881	29088	8332	4860	3471
Zhejiang	36347	18190	18157	6839	4122	2717
Anhui	46623	23645	22978	9577	5658	3919
Fujian	23890	11915	11975	5327	3096	2231
Jiangxi	30764	15565	15199	6630	4056	2574
Shandong	68430	33903	34527	12637	6909	5728
Henan	68818	34597	34220	14402	8375	6027
Hubei	43386	22010	21375	7751	4790	2961
Hunan	49513	25134	24378	9726	6085	3641
Guangdong	51071	25406	25664	12689	7244	5445
Guangxi	33661	17205	16457	8618	5347	3271
Hainan	5198	2657	2541	1457	885	572
Chongqing	23669	11937	11732	3650	2412	1238
Sichuan	65679	32995	32684	11028	6933	4095
Guizhou	25909	13517	12392	5900	3720	2180
Yunnan	30251	15223	15027	6291	3775	2517
Tibet	1654	776	878	468	243	225
Shaanxi	26249	13335	12914	4954	3055	1899
Gansu	18375	9275	9100	3559	2123	1436
Qinghai	3590	1805	1785	865	507	359
Ningxia	3794	1922	1871	864	500	364
Xinjiang	12173	6190	5983	3109	1816	1294