Marital status projections for England and Wales cover both legal marital status and opposite-sex cohabitation. Produced by the Office for National Statistics and designated as National Statistics, these projections are available in HTML format. The data was last updated on July 8, 2026.
Use Cases
- Forecast future household composition based on marital status and cohabitation projections.
- Model social policy impacts using legally recognized marital status trends.
- Analyze co-residential partnership patterns using opposite-sex cohabitation data.
Strengths
- Produced by the Office for National Statistics, a national statistical institute.
- Designated as National Statistics, indicating official status and quality assurance.
- Covers both legal marital status and co-residential cohabitation, providing a dual perspective.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.948966; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- England and Wales