Monitoring the future: questionnaire responses from the nation's high school seniors a19: if it were just up to you, what would be the ideal time for you to get married? 1. within the next year or so 4.5 2.7 6.3 4.6 4.8 2.8 2.4 7.5 3.7 3.0 10.6 4.5 3.7 3.7 5.9 3.5 2. two or three years from now 13.8 10.4 16.6 13.6 14.9 8.6 16.7 15.6 11.8 11.0 25.2 13.1 11.2 15.4 17.0 17.8 3. four or five years from now 30.1 28.7 31.6 32.9 23.3 26.9 36.3 26.5 32.3 30.6 28.7 31.7 29.1 33.4 25.5 23.8 4. over five years from now 45.7 50.4 41.5 44.2 50.2 55.9 39.3 43.6 47.3 50.3 27.2 45.8 49.7 43.5 42.4 49.2 5. i don't want to marry