アンケート調査の分析では、よく人を年齢別に表現すうことが多くなる。
具体的な表現方法は果たして、どうなっているか。
人を年齢区分して表現することはよくあることである。自分の型を持つくらいに
習熟すべきところだろう。
①ある一定年齢から上（幅のある数値の、片方の端だけを表現すればいい）
１５歳以上
people aged 15 or over/ people aged 15 or above/ people aged 15 or more/
men and women aged 15 or over
people who are 15 years old or over/ people who are 15 years old or above/ 等々
その他参考：「データで見る日本」からの引用ではないが以下も可能と参考書籍は示している。
people of 15 years or older 要するの前置詞ofを使った表現もある。older も使える、
そしてor にかえてand を使う使い方もある。
a:全国の１５歳以上の男女４０００人
Four-thousand men and women all over Japan aged 15 or over were surveyed, and the results were announced as a "White Paper on Leisure."
②ある一定の年齢の幅を設定する表現
＜between the ages of X and Y＞が基本的なパターンで、「データで見る日本」では圧倒的にこの使用例が多い。
これは、between the age of X and the age of X から来たもので、二つのthe age を一つに求めて、複数のthe ages にしたものだろう。だからここの複数は意識したい。
b:米国の１８歳～２９歳では
The proportion of young people who replied they have "a lot of interest" or "some interest" in politics came to 68% among young people in the United States between the ages of 18 and 29.
c:４５歳から５４歳までの中年男性
Even among middle-aged men between the ages of 45 and 54, one in every four comes into conatact with comics in their daily lives.
d:２０歳から５９歳までの社会人男性
The Daiichi Research Institute, which is a think tank for the Daiichi Mutual Life Insurance Company, conducted a survey four years ago among working members of society between the ages of twenty and fifty-nine.
＜from the ages of X to Y＞ もある。（「データで見る日本」での使用は１例のみ）
e:１５歳から７５歳までの男女５５００人
The survey was conducted among 55-hundred men and women from the ages of fifteen to seveny-five and asked them, " Do you have a bright, cheeful outlook ragarding your own old age?"
＜ranging from A to B＞（これはranging,...の現在分詞が名詞men and women を後置修飾するパターンだが、「データで見る日本」での使用例は２例のみ）
f:１０代から８０代までの男女５０００人を対象に
The Urban Life Research Institute of Tokyo Gas Company surveyed five-thousand men and women last year, ranging from people in their teens and people in their eigties.
g:２０代から５０代までの男女４００人ずつ
The survey asked 400 men and 400 women ranging from people in their twenties and people in their fifties how they feel about the idea that .....
③ある年代の表現
＜...in their fourties＞等が基本となる
h:４０代の男性
In particular, the ratio of men in their fourties who value work was 44%, which is down five ponts from 1998, in just one year.
i:２０～３０代の女性
A public opinion poll conducted by NHK in 1998 shows that nearly 90% of women in their twenties and thirties feel "getting married is not necessarily a must."
j:２０代前半の若者
In particular, only between 30 to 40% of younger people in their early twenties are going to the polls.
k:２０代後半の女性、３０代前半の女性
A national cencus held in 1995 shows that if you look at women in the latter half of their twenties, 50% of them are still unmarried. Even if you look at women in the first half of their thirties, 20% are still unmarried.
