- Excerpt taken from Youthworker, March/April 2005
2004 music sales
2004 CD album sales: 651.1 Million
Change from 2003 sales: +2.3%
(2003 was third consecutive year of decreased sales)
Major Genre' sales:
R&B (and rap): 162 million; up 8%
Alternative: 132 million; up 3%
Country: 78 million; up 12%
Metal: 75 million; up 2 %
Christian: 43 million; down 7%
Latin: 32 million; up 16%
- USA Today, January 5
Downloading Music Legally
Number of music tracks legally downloaded in:
2004: 140 million
2003: 20 million - Newsweek, January 17
School at Home
U. S. kids who are home-schooled:
1999: 850,000; 2003: 1.1 million
From families with three/more siblings: 62% (versus 44% among kids not home-schooled)
Live with both parents: 80%
(versus 66% of kids not home-schooled)
Parents have a college degree: nearly 50% (versus c. 33% of other kids)
- Chicago Tribune, January 4
Smoke at Home
Average number of points children exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke scored lower on standardized tests compared to those exposed to little or no smoke: 7
U.S. Children exposed to smoke at home: 40%
- Time, January 17
Cheating
Odds the average guy as a teen cheated on his high school sweetheart: 1 in 7
Number of guys who say visiting a strip club is cheating: 1 in 2 - Men's Health, February 2005
U. S. Marriage and Pseudo-Marriage
Median age at first marriage of women:
2003 - 25.3 years; 1970 - 20.8 years
Median age at first marriage of men:
2003 - 27.1 years; 1970 - 23.2 years
Percentage of U.S. household composed of unmarried opposite-sex couples:
2004: 4.2%; 1996: 2.9% - Time, December 13
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times
- 1 Chronicles 12:32