Task 1: The chart below gives information about the age of women in Australia when they gave birth to their first child in 1966, 1986 and 2006.

The chart compares the proportion of

women

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delivered

diverted

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who divered

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divered

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delivered

their child for the

first

time in

term

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terms

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of age groups in Australia in

seperate

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separate

3

years

( 1966, 1986 and 2006)

Overall

, it can be seen clearly that the percentage of

women

who gave birth to their

first

child witnessed a gradual increase at all ages. One notable trend was that

while

there was a fall in the proportion of

first

-time mothers aged 30 or under, the opposite was true for the figure of

women

whose

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apply

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aged over 30. In 1966, the majority of

women

at

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over 60% were aged between 20 and 24

years

old when

dilivering

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delivering

their

first

child, compared to 35% who were young

mother

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mothers

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, aged

at

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under 19. After 40

years

, these figures dropped sharply to around 34% and 15% , respectively. The 25-30 age group saw a slightly different pattern, with a rise of about 15% in the

first

20

years

, followed by a decline of nearly 10% twenty

years

later , down to just over 40 %. Turning to the remaining age categories, the proportions of 30-34s and 34-39s who were

first

-time mothers experienced dramatic increases over the

40-year-period

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40-year period

, from approximately 13% to 47% and from 8% to 30%, respectively. The figures for

women

aged 40 or over remained relatively stable at around 2% and 4% during the same period.