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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2011

Variable Details

VariableMARSTA
LabelMarital status
Question text Are you currently... single, that is never married, married and living with your husband/wife, a civil partner in a legally-recognised Civil Partnership, married and separated from your husband/wife, divorced, or 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, never married 49577
2 Married, living with spouse 43392
3 Married separated from spouse 2389
4 Divorced 7166
5 Widowed 3876
6 Currently or previously in civil partnership 243
7 Separated Civil Partner 0
8 Former Civil Partner, legally dissolved 0
9 Surviving Civil Partner, partner died 0
-10 No answer/Does not apply 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2011
Interviewer InstructionsRUNNING PROMPT CODE 1ST THAT APPLIES ASK OR RECORD
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeData are produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year.
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