Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Continuous Household Survey, 2010-2011

Variable Details

Variablemarstt
LabelMarital Status
Question text Are you/is .. Name... Single, that is never married, Married and living with husband\wife, A civil partner in a legally-recognised Civil Partnership, Married and separated from husband\wife, Divorced, Widowed, In a legally-recognised Civil Partnership and separated from his/her civil partner, Formerly a civil partner, the Civil Partnership now legally dissolved, A surviving civil partner: his/her partner having since died?
Responses
1 Single, that is never married 3223
2 Married and living with husband\wife 2807
3 Civil Partner in a legally-recognised Civil Partnership 0
4 Married and separated from husband\wife 165
5 Divorced 237
6 Widowed 333
7 In Civil Partnership- separated 0
8 In Civil Partnership - legally dissolved 0
9 In Civil Partnership - partner since die 0
Sysmiss 2
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationContinuous Household Survey, 2010-2011
Interviewer InstructionsRUNNING PROMPT - CODE FIRST THAT APPLIES
UniversePrivate households in Northern Ireland.;Households;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;The CHS is based on a systematic random sample of 4,500 addresses drawn each year from the Land and Property Services AgencyGÇÖs (LPSA) list of domestic addresses. The LPSA addresses are sorted by district council and ward, so the sample is effectively stratified geographically. Data is collected by personal interview using CAPI, and the interviews are spread equally over the 12 months from April to March.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; Data are collected annually.