Marriages and divorces
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Data on number of marriages and divorces provide information on number of marriages in breakdown by month, ethnicity and age of persons marrying, etc., as well as on number of divorces by length of marriage, age of divorced persons etc.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
N/A
Statistical population
N/A
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
N/A
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
Eurostat (statistical office of the European Union) is responsible for publishing high-quality Europe-wide statistics and indicators that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Statistics is available in the Eurostat database, in section Marriages and divorces.
Length of comparable time series
N/A
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
Data on concluded marriages are acquired from the Information System for Registration of Civil Status Documents of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.
Data on divorces are acquired by following the changes in the individual data regarding a person’s legal marital status included in the Register of Natural Persons of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.
Data collection
N/A
Data compilation
N/A