Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July - September, 2023

Variable Details

VariableMARSTA
LabelMarital status
Question text Are you currently... 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 or 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, never married 19274
2 Married, living with husbandwife 20624
3 Married, separated from husbandwife 757
4 Divorced 3184
5 Widowed 1934
6 Civil Partner 231
7 Separated Civil Partner 4
8 Former Civil Partner, legally dissolved 0
9 Surviving Civil Partner, partner died 2
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July - September, 2023
Interviewer InstructionsRUNNING PROMPT. CODE 1ST THAT APPLIES. ASK OR RECORD.
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeUntil 2015, data were produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year. From January 2015, the household datasets are produced for each quarter.