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  • ISSP Research Group (2023): International Social Survey Programme: Environment IV - ISSP 2020. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA7650 Data file Version 2.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.14153 (en)
  • ISSP Research Group (2023): International Social Survey Programme: Environment IV - ISSP 2020. GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA7650 Datenfile Version 2.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.14153 (de)
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  • BVQ_34. MARITAL

    What is your current legal marital status?

    (Please tick one box only.)

    COMMENT ON MARITAL: The aim of this variable is to measure the current 'legal' marital status of the respondent. 'Living as married' or 'de facto married' is no legal partnership status and therefore not of relevance to this variable. Note that MARITAL must not be filtered by responses to PARTLIV.
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    AT: Now some questions about your life situation: What is your marital status?
    AU: What is your current legal marital status?
    CH: What is your current legal marital status?
    CN: What's your marital status now?
    DE: What is your current marital status?
    DK: What is your current legal marital status?
    ES: Which of the following situations best defines your current marital status or legal situation?
    FI: Are you currently...?
    FR: Are you…?
    HR: Marital status of the respondent (legal status)
    HU: Derived from 'What is your marital status? and '(If not 'married and living together') Are you living with a partner?' and 'Have you registered your partnership before a notary?'
    IN: What is your current legal marital status?
    IS: What is your current legal marital status? If you have never been married but are in informal cohabitation, please answer 'I have never been married'.
    IT: What is your current legal marital status?
    JP: What is your current legal marital status?
    KR: Is [person] now married, widowed, divorced, separated, never married, or cohabiting?
    LT: What is your current legal marital status?
    NO: What is your current legal marital status?
    NZ: Which one of these categories best describes your current marital status?
    PH: What is your current legal marital status?
    RU: What is your marital status?
    SE: What is your current legal marital status?
    SI: What is your marital status?
    SK: What is your current marital status?
    TH: What is your current marital status?
    TW: What is your current marital status?
    US: Are you currently married, widowed, divorced, separated, or have you never been married?
    ZA: What is your current marital status?
    (en)
  • Note:
    / AT: The national questionnaire conflates the marital status categories 'Divorced' and 'Separated'. It is not possible to properly separate both categories in retrospect. Both family statuses are encoded to code 4 'Divorced', supplemented by a specific for Austria 'AT: Divorced/ Separated'.
    / AU: Code 2 'Civil Partnership' not used; civil partnerships are not relevant in the Australian context.
    / CH: Code 2 'Civil partnership' includes same-sex partnerships registered on federal level.
    / CN: One answer option was 'Cohabitation'. 66 respondents selected this answer option. Since cohabitation is no legal marital status and due to the fact that the true legal status of these respondents is not known, observations for this answer code are recoded to code -9 'Cohabit' in the integrated data file.
    / DE: Civil partnerships include same-sex, formally legalised partnerships (since 2000). As of 2017, marriages of same-sex couples are possible.
    / DK: Code 2 contains 'Registreret partnerskab' and includes same-sex partnerships (same-sex marriage became legal in 2012).
    / ES: Code 2 includes 'Pareja de hecho' - a civil partnership registered or formalized before a notary'.
    / FI: Code 2 'Civil partnership' includes registered civil partnerships available for same-sex couples.
    / FR: : Code 2 includes 'Pacsé(e)', a French contract of civil partnership (PACS). At the start, it intended to legally recognize the cohabitation of same-sex couples. In the meantime, PACS contracts are often concluded by partners of different sexes.
    / HR: Code 2 'Civil partnership' includes extramarital unions legally defined as living in a common household for a minimum period of 3 years and/ or joint parenthood.
    / IN: Respondents 'Cohabiting, living together' are recoded to category 6 'Never married', because mere cohabitation does not constitute an official character for the marital status.
    / IS: Code 2 includes 'In registered cohabitation' (Í skráðri sambúð). The Marriage Act has been gender-neutral in Iceland from 2010 and applies to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples. What used to be civil partnership is now considered marriage. Therefore, the Icelandic legislation has two basic structures that govern adult relationships. One is marriage and the other is registered cohabitation (skráð sambúð). The registration of cohabitation gives some legal rights and is very common in Iceland.
    / IT: Code 2 includes same-sex unions ('Unione civile').
    / JP: Code 2 'Civil partnership' not used.
    / LT: There is no legal civil partnership in Lithuania.
    / NO: Code 2 'Civil partnership' includes registered partner (same-sex partnership).
    / NZ: Answers to the original category 'De facto' (living as married) were converted to code 6 'Never married'. Category 2 includes civil unions (same-sex partners).
    / SE: Code 2 'Civil partnership' includes 'Registered partnership' (Registrerat partnerskap; same-sex partners).
    / SI:Code 2 'Civil partnership' includes also registered homosexual partnerships.
    / SK: Code 2 'Civil partnership' not asked.
    / TW: One answer option in MARITAL was 'Cohabitation', which is no legal marital status in the official sense. Since the true marital status is unknown, the 25 respondents who selected this answer option were recoded to code -9 'No answer' in MARITAL.
    / US: MARITAL now encompasses both opposite-sex and same-sex marriages. The General Social Survey (GSS) uses POSSLQ and POSSLQY (see PARTLIV) to track long-term cohabitation, but does not ask about civil partnerships separate from marriage. Hence, there are no observations for code 2 'Civil partnershiip' in US data.
    / ZA: Code 6 includes 'Never married but engaged' and 'Never married and not engaged'.


    (en)
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  • 2023 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 2019-01-01 (xsd:date)
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  • 2019 (xsd:gyear)
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  • Das International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) ist ein internationales Kooperationsprogramm, das jährlich eine Umfrage zu sozialwissenschaftlich relevanten Themen durchführt. Seit 1985 stellt das ISSP internationale Datensätze bereit, die internationale und kulturübergreifende sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung über Zeit ermöglichen. (de)
  • Die ISSP-Umweltmodule befassen sich hauptsächlich mit der Einstellung zu umweltbezogenen Themen wie Umweltschutz, dem Verhalten der Befragten und den Präferenzen der Befragten in Bezug auf staatliche Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Umwelt. (de)
  • ISSP Environment modules mainly deal with attitudes towards environment related issues, such as environmental protection, respondents´ behavior and respondents´ preferences regarding governmental measures on environmental protection. (en)
  • The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuing annual program of cross-national survey collaboration, covering a wide range of topics important for social science research. Since 1985 the ISSP provides international data sets, enabling cross-cultural and cross-temporal research. (en)
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  • English (en)
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  • AT (xsd:string)
  • AU (xsd:string)
  • CH (xsd:string)
  • CN (xsd:string)
  • DE (xsd:string)
  • DK (xsd:string)
  • ES (xsd:string)
  • FI (xsd:string)
  • FR (xsd:string)
  • HR (xsd:string)
  • HU (xsd:string)
  • IN (xsd:string)
  • IS (xsd:string)
  • IT (xsd:string)
  • JP (xsd:string)
  • KR (xsd:string)
  • LT (xsd:string)
  • NO (xsd:string)
  • NZ (xsd:string)
  • PH (xsd:string)
  • RU (xsd:string)
  • SE (xsd:string)
  • SI (xsd:string)
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  • TH (xsd:string)
  • TW (xsd:string)
  • US (xsd:string)
  • ZA (xsd:string)
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  • Legal partnership status (de)
  • Legal partnership status (en)
  • MARITAL (xsd:string)
  • MARITAL - (de)
  • MARITAL - Legal partnership status (en)
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  • 2019 (xsd:gyear)
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  • ISSP - Module Topic: Environment (de)
  • ISSP - Module Topic: Environment (en)
  • International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) (en)
  • International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) (de)
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  • Legal partnership status (de)
  • Legal partnership status (en)
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  • MARITAL (xsd:string)