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´Best age to marry´, ´best age to have 1st child´, and ´best lookin age´ were asked through questionnaire. Respondents were 200 university students (mean age: 19.92) plus 200 senior citizens (mean age: 70.35). In both age groups, the half of the respondents were men and women respectively. The result indicated that sex and age of the perceiver as well as sex of the perceived were important variables influencing perceived age norms. For the ´best age to marry´ and the ´best age to have baby´, the age norm designated by the old respondents was earlier than that by the young group´s, and the age norm designated by the female respondents was later than that by the male respondents. And men were perceived well to be later than women on those events. For the ´best looking age´, the old group´s age norm was later than the young group´s. Again here, the designated norm for men were perceived to be later than that for women. These data imply that a person´s own age and socio-economic status can be important factors on age norm perception. The result of this study and some other related data were compared.
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