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Living arrangements

  • Mnemonic reference

    LARPUK11

  • Applicability

    Person

  • Type

    Derived variable

Definition

The ‘living arrangements’ classification combines responses to the question on marital and civil partnership status with information about whether or not a person is living in a couple. This classification is only applicable to people in households.

Living arrangements differs from marital and civil partnership status because cohabiting takes priority over other categories. For example, if a person is divorced and cohabiting, then in results for living arrangements they are classified as cohabiting.

Classification

Total number of categories 12

Code Name
01 Living in a couple: Married (including separated)
02 Living in a couple: Registered same-sex civil partnership (including separated)
03 Living in a couple: Cohabiting
04 Not living in a couple: Single (never married or never registered a same-sex civil partnership)
05 Not living in a couple: Married
06 Not living in a couple: Registered same-sex civil partnership
07 Not living in a couple: Separated (but still legally married or still legally in a same-sex civil partnership)
08 Not living in a couple: Divorced
09 Not living in a couple: Dissolved
10 Not living in a couple: Widowed
11 Not living in a couple: Survived
XX No code required - comprises people in communal establishments and school children and full-time students living away from home during term-time.

Source question or variables

FT1 (Derived variable)

GENINFAM (Derived variable)

MARSTAT (Primary variable)

RESIDENCE_TYPE (Primary variable)

TERMIND (Primary variable)

Known Quality Issues

This variable relies on relationship data, which include some known quality issues. These are summarised on the Data Quality Issues Page.

  • Mnemonic reference

    LARPUK

  • Applicability

    All people in households, UK

Definition

This derived variable is created by combining the responses to the question on legal Marital Status (MSTPUK), and the responses to the relationship question. This is an ONS harmonised survey classification.

Classification

Total number of categories 9

Code Name
1 Living in a couple: Married (including separated)
2 Living in a couple: Remarried
3 Living in a couple: Cohabiting
4 Not living in a couple: Single
5 Not living in a couple: Married or remarried
6 Not living in a couple: Separated
7 Not living in a couple: Divorced
8 Not living in a couple: Widowed
X ​Not applicable