15.5 Marital status categories
For the purposes of providing a better overview the raw IOMS marital status data was reduced using the following mapping.
|
IOMS Data point |
Census category |
|
Never married |
Never married |
|
De facto spouse - opposite sex partner |
De facto spouse - opposite sex partner |
|
Null |
Not specified |
|
Not specified |
Not specified |
|
Legal spouse (not separated) - first marriage |
Married |
|
Legal spouse (not separated) - not further defined |
Married |
|
Legal spouse (not separated) - subsequent marriage |
Married |
|
Separated |
Separated |
|
Divorced |
Divorced |
|
Widowed |
Widowed |
|
De facto spouse - same sex partner |
De facto spouse - same sex partner |