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Our Marriages in England and Wales Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) report contains more information on: Organisations such as Eurostat and the United Nations Statistics Division use our marriage statistics for example, to monitor progress towards global indicators as part of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) publish marriage statistics for Northern Ireland. The National Records of Scotland (NRS) publish marriage statistics for Scotland. The majority of these figures are now included in published tables.Īnnual marriage figures for the UK and constituent countries can be found in our Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages dataset.

ARRANGED MARRIAGE STATISTICS REGISTRATION

This covers the period 1837 to 1983 for marriages, dating from the year when the present national system of registration was first introduced in England and Wales.

Historical statistics for England and Wales have also been published in the volume Marriage and divorce statistics (Series FM2 Number 16) published in 1990. Prior to 1974 in the Registrar General’s Statistical Review of England and Wales Marriages by area of occurrence, type of ceremony and denominationĬomparable statistics for England and Wales for earlier years are published as follows:ġ995 to 2007 in Marriage, divorce and adoption statistics (series FM2)ġ974 to 1994 in the annual reference volume Marriage and divorce statistics (series FM2) Marriage statistics, cohabitation and cohort analyses Number of marriages, marriage rates and period of occurrenceĪge and previous marital status at marriage Prior to the 2012 data year, final marriage statistics for the previous year were published as a set of packages: The response to this consultation (PDF, 103.7KB), published in April 2014, detailed these changes. A consultation, Understanding user requirements for marriage, divorce and civil partnership statistics given the introduction of marriage of same-sex couples (docx, 181KB), was published in October 2013. Alongside these, we also publish explorable datasets (published on the Nomis website), which can be used to obtain more detailed statistics for a particular calendar year.

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We now publish a selection of summary datasets, which provide an extensive time series for comparison. From the 2013 data year onwards, the format of annual marriage publications changed. Published tables provide statistics on marriages that took place in England and Wales. Final marriage statistics are required to be laid before Parliament. The publication of provisional marriage statistics has been discontinued to ensure value for money across our outputs. Prior to 2016, provisional marriage statistics were published just over a year after the end of the reference period providing summary statistics for the latest year. Final annual marriage statistics are currently published just over two years after the end of the reference year. Our Marriage statistics are derived from information recorded when marriages are registered as part of civil registration, a legal requirement.

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This guarantees that these outputs have been produced to high professional standards set out in the Code of Practice for Statistics and have been produced free from any political interference. We produce demographic statistics on marriages taking place in England and Wales, which are published as National Statistics.

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