DY: Outside Lakewood hasn’t been stabilized by the young couples having the most new babies. A larger percentage of the young couples still move to Lakewood from elsewhere whereas only a smaller percentage of older couples move to Lakewood. Lakewood’s growth is still skewed towards the younger couples producing the larger number of little children. (And other places may still retain a sufficient percent of couples to keep their demographics steady compared to Lakewood’s boom.) So using Lakewood as the basis for a general trend will skew towards a different set of data than the overall world.
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