Marital Status

Change History
DSCN (2008) 07 (W)	The Introduction of Valid Period Date Ranges for Data Items within the APC Data Set
DSCN (2006) 13 (W)	Changes to the Data Item 'Marital Status' to bring the Welsh definition in line with the definition in England.

This data item is / was included in the following data sets / collections between the dates shown:

Data Set / Collection	Valid From	Valid To
APC ds99 (Psychiatric Patients Only)	1^st April 1999

This is only collected for patients under the care of a consultant in a psychiatric specialty. This is the legal marital or civil status of a patient.

Format: 1 character alpha-numeric

Value	Meaning	Valid From	Valid To
1	Single	Pre 28^th December 1995	31^st October 2006
2	Married / Separated	Pre 28^th December 1995	31^st October 2006
3	Divorced	Pre 28^th December 1995	31^st October 2006
4	Widowed	Pre 28^th December 1995	31^st October 2006
S	Single	1^st November 2006
M	Married / Civil Partner	1^st November 2006
D	Divorced / Person whose Civil Partnership has been dissolved	1^st November 2006
W	Widowed / Surviving Civil Partner	1^st November 2006
P	Separated	1^st November 2006
N	Not disclosed	1^st November 2006
8	Not applicable	1^st July 1997
9	Not known	Pre 28^th December 1995 Reinstated 1^st November 2006	20^th January 2002