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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2021

Variable Details

VariableRMARST
LabelMarital 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 In a legally-recognised Civil Partnership and separated from civil partner Formerly a civil partner, the Civil Partnership now legally dissolved A surviving civil partner as partner having since died Prefer not to say?
Responses
1 Single (never married) 406
3 Married/civil partnership and living with spouse/partner 753
4 Married and separated from spouse 44
5 Divorced/civil partnership dissolved 106
6 Widowed 78
99 No answer/refused 10
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNorthern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2021
Interviewer InstructionsCODE FIRST TO APPLY
Universe1,397 adults aged 18 years living in private households
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study
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