title: The proportion of marriages ending in divorce.
abstract: Even though cohabitation has become more prevalent in the last few decades, the majority of the adult population is married, and marriage is associated with a number of factors, such as educational outcom and health. Understanding the marrie population is also an important part of understanding partnering behaviour and family formation and dissolution. The length of marriages and whether they are ended by death or divorce is therefore of interest t demographers and policy maker
authors.affiliation: Office for National Statistics.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smallwood
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004243:Divorce / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology