England and Wales Census 2021 - Legal partnership status by age, sex and local authority

These datasets are part of "Marriage and civil partnership status in England and Wales: Census 2021", a release of results from the 2021 Census for England and Wales.

To ensure that individuals cannot be identified in the data, population counts have been rounded to the nearest five and counts under 10 have been suppressed.

Figures may differ slightly in future releases because of the impact of removing rounding and applying further statistical processes.

Quality notes can be found here

Usual resident

A usual resident is anyone who on Census Day, 21 March 2021 was in the UK and had stayed or intended to stay in the UK for a period of 12 months or more, or had a permanent UK address and was outside the UK and intended to be outside the UK for less than 12 months.

Legal partnership status

Classifies a person according to their legal marital or registered civil partnership status on Census Day, 21 March 2021. The definition of legal partnership status is the same as the 2011 Census variable “Marital status” but has been updated for Census 2021 to reflect the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 which made provision for the extension of civil partnerships to couples who are not of the same sex.