title: The re-based 1991 population estimates by marital status.
abstract: Shortly after preparing the re-based 1991 population estimates, the Office for National Statistics produced provisional population estimates by legal marital status (for England and Wales as a whole). These provisional estimates were calculated using a marital status distribution for 1991 that was updated from the 1981 Census. These estimates have now been revised to incorporate marital status information from the 1991 Census. This article outlines the options for re-basing the estimates, the method used, and assesses the effect of the revision on the rates of marriage, divorce and mortality by single year of age. The main differences between the provisional and final re-based estimates in 1991 are: estimates of widowed men and women are 7 per cent and 2 per cent higher, respectively, estimates of divorced men and women are 2 per cent and 3 per cent lower, re-marriage rates (amongst the divorced or widowed) for men 50-59 increased, and mortality rates for single and divorced men increased for those aged over 70.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019352:Censuses; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D014852:Wales