Abstract
Abstract After Chinese Economic Reform, the proportion of single people at the appropriate age for marriage is rising, and the phenomenon becomes one of the most important issues for Chinese demography. However, are these people getting married later? Do they reject to get married? Can’t they get married? In order to answer these questions, this article uses data from China Social General Survey at 2008 with Random Effect Event History Model to examine the unmarried reasons for these people and estimate their probability of getting married. I find that: Because of the transitions of educational structures and the labor market by industrialization, most of people delay their first marriage time, therefore, they decline the marriage rate at the appropriate age for marriage of Chinese society. Furthermore, I find Chinese male workers are significantly difficult to get married than others who are unmarried at 35 years old. Key words: Chinese demography, marriage, marriage timing, late marriage, never married