Marital status code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Value Domain

METeOR identifier:

270666

Registration status:

Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Community services, Standard 01/03/2005
Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006

Definition:

A code set representing the marital status of a person.

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Never married
2	Widowed
3	Divorced
4	Separated
5	Married (registered and de facto)

Supplementary values:

6	Not stated/inadequately described

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Refers to the current marital status of a person.

CODE 2 Widowed

This code usually refers to registered marriages but when self reported may also refer to de facto marriages.

CODE 4 Separated

This code refers to registered marriages but when self reported may also refer to de facto marriages.

CODE 5 Married (registered and de facto)

Includes people who have been divorced or widowed but have since re-married, and should be generally accepted as applicable to all de facto couples, including of the same sex.

CODE 6 Not stated/inadequately described

This code is not for use on primary collection forms. It is primarily for use in administrative collections when transferring data from data sets where the item has not been collected.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:

The ABS standards for the collection of Social and Registered marital status appear on the ABS Website. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Family, household and income unit variables. Cat. no. 1286.0. Canberra: ABS.

Relational attributes

Data elements implementing this value domain:

Person—marital status, code N Health, Superseded 04/05/2005
Community services, Superseded 25/08/2005

Person—marital status, code N Health, Standard 04/05/2005
Community services, Standard 25/08/2005
Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006