Census Data

Merseyside: Legal partnership status

Location Type: Metropolitan Counties, ONS Geographic Code: E11000002

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Key Facts

All Residents 1,423,287
Male 690,711
Female 732,574
Households 620,902

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Metropolitan Counties. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Merseyside. They may not, therefore, be precisely accurate. Age-standardised statistics and population density are not available for aggregated datasets.

Table Codets002
Issued2022-12-13
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options12

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by their legal partnership status. The estimates are at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

Classifies a person according to their legal marital or registered civil partnership status on Census Day 21 March 2021.

It is the same as the 2011 census variable "Marital status" but has been updated for Census 2021 to reflect the revised Civil Partnership Act that came into force in 2019.

In Census 2021 results, "single" refers only to someone who has never been married or in a registered civil partnership.

Quality Statement

Separate estimates by opposite and same-sex partnerships for the marital status categories “Separated”, “Divorced/dissolved” and “Widowed/surviving partners” are not available. This is because quality assurance showed the figures for some of the categories were unreliable.

More information at the ONS website

Marital and civil partnership status: Total 1,172,404
Never married and never registered a civil partnership 512,851
Married or in a registered civil partnership 449,814
Married or in a registered civil partnership: Married 448,018
Married or in a registered civil partnership: Married: Opposite sex 445,121
Married or in a registered civil partnership: Married: Same sex 2,897
Married or in a registered civil partnership: In a registered civil partnership 1,796
Married or in a registered civil partnership: In a registered civil partnership: Opposite sex 614
Married or in a registered civil partnership: In a registered civil partnership: Same sex 1,182
Separated, but still legally married or still legally in a civil partnership 27,050
Separated, but still legally married or still legally in a civil partnership: Separated, but still married 26,915
Separated, but still legally married or still legally in a civil partnership: Separated, but still in a registered civil partnership 135
Divorced or civil partnership dissolved 103,670
Divorced or civil partnership dissolved: Divorced 103,452
Divorced or civil partnership dissolved: Formerly in a civil partnership now legally dissolved 218
Widowed or surviving civil partnership partner 79,019
Widowed or surviving civil partnership partner: Widowed 78,942
Widowed or surviving civil partnership partner: Surviving partner from civil partnership 77

These values are calculated by adding up the values for census output areas contained within Merseyside. They may, therefore, be slightly inaccurate due to administrative boundaries not precisely aligning with census boundaries.

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