Subtopic: Marriages

Data from the 2011 General Lifestyle Survey on marital history and periods of cohabitation from adults aged 16 to 59.

This article on ‘Households and families’ is the third in a series which aims to explore in more detail the different domains that have been considered as important for the measurement of National Well-being. It firstly focuses on family and household formation and then on individual aspects of these such as marriage and divorce.

This bulletin analyses marriage statistics by sex, age, period of occurrence, previous marital status, type of ceremony, religious denomination and area of occurrence

The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979–2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different types of partnership, the timing of life course transitions, and the outcome of cohabitation and marriage at the fifth and tenth anniversaries.

2009

2009