From mid-1991 to mid-2001, this dataset provides estimates of the usually resident population of England and Wales broken down by marital status, single year of age, and sex. It is produced by the Office for National Statistics and excludes marriages that occurred abroad.
Use Cases
- Analyze age-specific marriage rates based on marital status and single-year age data.
- Model demographic projections based on historical marital status distributions.
- Study gender differences in marital status across age cohorts.
- Investigate long-term trends in marriage and partnership for social policy.
Strengths
- Data spans a continuous 10-year period from mid-1991 to mid-2001.
- Estimates are broken down by single year of age, sex, and marital status.
- Produced by the Office for National Statistics, a designated National Statistics authority.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source and period.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Time Range
- mid-1991 to mid-2001
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:46.065581; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- England and Wales