How Couples Meet? 1930 to 2024

Visualization of the chronological trends in how couples first met and got to know each other, from 1930 to 2024, based on a nationally representative survey of American adults. Traditional methods of meeting through family, church, neighbors, and in elementary or secondary school have sharply declined since the 1940s. Online dating began to rise significantly with the advent of advanced internet applications and smartphones. The data turbulence in 2020 is associated with the pandemic.

Sources:
Own calculation based on data: Stanford University - Social Science Data Collection
Data visualization created using: "Flourish"

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