CL_CIVIL_STATUS

Name: Code list for concept "Civil Status" (ID "CIVIL_STATUS").

Description: This codelist provides a list of values for describing the civil (or marital) status of an individual, i.e. the legal, conjugal status of an individual in relation to the marriage laws or customs of the country.

Established international standards used as input for the code list:

  • United Nations, "Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 2", Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, Statistical Papers, Series M No.67/Rev.2, New York, 2008[1].
  • United Nations, "Handbook on Population and Housing Census Editing, Revision 1", Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, Studies in Methods, Series F No.82/Rev.1, New York, 2010[2].
  • European Union, Eurostat, "EU legislation on the 2011 Population and Housing Censuses. Explanatory Notes", Methodologies and Working Papers, Cat. No KS-RA-11-006-EN-N, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2011[3].

Version: 1.0.

Date: 25 November 2013.

Recommended code
valuesdescriptions / Annotations
S / Single person / This code includes persons who have never been married or in registered partnership.
M / Married person / This code covers both persons living in a same-sex marriage as well as in an opposite-sex marriage.This code excludes legally separated persons.
W / Widowed person / This code includes persons whose marriage ended with the death of the partner and who are not remarried or in a registered partnership.
D / Divorced person / This code includes persons whose marriage ended with a divorce procedure and who are not remarried or in a registered partnership.
L / Legally separated person / This code includes persons who are separated: they are still married, but "officially" separated.
P / Person in registered partnership / This code covers both persons livingin an opposite-sex registered partnership as well as in a same-sex registered partnership.Registered partnerships also include customary unions that are legal and binding under national law This code excludes persons whose registered partnership was legally dissolved.
Q / Person whose registered partnership ended with the death of the partner / This code includes persons whose registered partnership ended with the death of the partner and who are not remarried or in a registered partnership.
E / Person whose registered partnership was legally dissolved / This code includes persons whose registered partnership ended with a legal procedure and who are not remarried or in a registered partnership.

Remark

Further recommended code values for expressing general statistical concepts like "not applicable" (e.g. people under the official age for contracting marriage), "unknown values", etc., can be found in section “Generic codes” of the "Guidelines for the creation and management of SDMX Cross-Domain Code Lists" (to be found under “Guidelines” on the official SDMX website[4]).

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