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 Mean age at marriage (Years)
Characteristic Description
Name Mean age at marriage (Years) by Sex; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Demographic indicators
First available period 1970
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of registration (Portugal)
  • Sex
Concepts
  • MEAN AGE AT MARRIAGE:  The mean age of women (or men) when they get married, in a certain period of time, usually a calendar year.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • PLACE OF REGISTRATION:  The location of the registry office where a birth, marriage or death was recorded. In the case of a divorce, it is the registry office or court of law where it was decreed.
  • MARRIAGE:  Contract signed by two persons that intend to start a family in full partnership and cohabitation according to legislation.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Year (Year)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 30/04/2024


information presented in 22/12/2024