Last year the Chinese government reported an alarming spike in the divorce rate. The official divorce rate was reported as 2.76 per 1,000. This is still well below Western rates (the U.S. is about 4 per 1,000) but much higher than the Chinese divorce rate was just a few years ago.
The Chinese government has now admitted that they goofed, according to the official China Daily. They counted the number of divorced people, rather than the number of divorces.
The new official 2005 divorce rate for China is 1.3 per 1,000.
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Thank you for this. For someone who is teaching statistics, an easy-to-understand stats error is a very delicious item to take to class.
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