# Cousin Marriage

This folder contains data behind the story [Dear Mona: How Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins?](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-are-married-to-their-cousins/)

Header | Definition
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`percent` | Percent of marriages that are consanguineous

Source: [cosang.net](http://www.consang.net/index.php/Main_Page)

This dataset was scraped from [FiveThirtyEight - cousin-marriage](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/cousin-marriage)