Person: Marital Status (Data Element Concept)

Person: Marital Status

Type: Data Element Concept
Identifiers: UUID - 673c2502-158c-11e7-803e-0242ac110017; meteor:meteor/269533/
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Stewardship Organisation: Aristotle Demo Organisation
Endorsed by: Community Services : Standard on March 1, 2005

Health : Standard on March 1, 2005

Housing assistance : Standard on Feb. 10, 2006

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Last updated: 15 February 2022
Created: 07 March 2015
Supersedes: None
Superseded by: None
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Definition

A person's current relationship status in terms of a couple relationship or, for those not in a couple relationship, the existence of a current or previous registered marriage.

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Data Element

Implemented in 4 data elements

Data Element Concept (this item)
Person: Marital Status
- Object Class
  Person
- Property
  Marital Status
Conceptual Domain
None

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Context:

Marital status is a core metadata item in a wide range of social, labour and demographic statistics. Its main purpose is analysis of the association of marital status with the need for and use of services, and for epidemiological analysis.

Marital status also acts as an indicator for the level of support adult recipients of the welfare system have at home. The item is also used in comparisons of administrative data and population censuses and surveys.

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This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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