====Marital History== ---- Study members were first asked for details of their marriages in [[questionnaires:1965|1965]]. This information was updated in [[questionnaires:1966|1966]],[[questionnaires:1968|1968]] and [[questionnaires:1971|1971]].
In [[questionnaires:1972|1972]] study members were asked to confirm their marriage details and were also asked about their spouse's and their parents' marital history; this information was updated in [[questionnaires:1977|1977]]. In [[questionnaires:1982|1982]] a full marital history was recorded from their first marriage to the present day, this was updated in [[questionnaires:1989|1989]] (or collected from new if the study member was not interviewed in [[questionnaires:1982|1982]]), and updated again in [[questionnaires:1999|1999]]. \\ In [[questionnaires:2009|2006-10]] and [[questionnaires:2015|2014-16]], study members were asked if, since the previous data collection, they had married, remarried, separated, divorced or had been widowed. At each wave, study members were asked to the number of marriages and how each marriage ended. The year of the start and end (if relevant) of each marriage has also been recorded.
A set of derived variables was created for:
* **marital status** at each wave * **age** at first and subsequent marriages * the **total number** of marriages * **how** each marriage ended * **year** of each separation/divorce/widowhood ---- === Obtaining the standard marital history variables === * You can obtain a list of the standard topic variables to use in an NSHD data sharing request by selecting the link below.\\ \\ [[http://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/Sparrow/search/html/keyword/mrepo:topics:maritalhistory| HTML version of the standard variables to view]] \\ \\