Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2010

Variable Details

Variablermarst
LabelMay I ask your martial status?
Question text Are you... single (never married), married and living with husband/wife, a civil partner in a legally-registered civil partnership, married and separated from husband\wife, divorced, widowed, Spontaneous only - In a legally- recognised Civil Partnership and separated from his/her civil partner, Spontaneous only - Formerly a civil partner, the Civil Partnership now legally dissolved, Spontaneous only - A surviving civil partner: his/her partner having since died?
Responses
1 Single, that is never married 362
2 Married and living with spouse/In Civil Partnership 603
3 A civil partner in a legally-recognised Civil Partnership 0
4 Married and separated from husband\wife 60
5 Divorced 80
6 Or widowed? 100
7 Spontaneous only - In a legally-recognised Civil Partn 0
8 Spontaneous only - Formerly a civil partner, the Civil 0
9 Spontaneous only - A surviving civil partner: his/her 0
99 Don't Know 0
98 Refusal 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNorthern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2010
Interviewer InstructionsCODE FIRST TO APPLY
UniverseNorthern Irish adults;National;Adults aged 18 or over, living in private households in Northern Ireland during 2010.
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study