Separation of spouses (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2018

General characteristics  
Contents:
Separation of married couples (in one calendar year)
Analysis units:
Children born (number of minors born during marriage); Minors assigned (number of minors assigned at separation); Separation of married couples (end of marital cohabitation)
Periodicity:
Yearly
EU legislation:
No

Survey design  
Type:
Not available

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Courts
Data collection mode:
Acquisition of paper registers of individual statistical data collected while drafting administrative records
Total units:
Not applicable
Respondents:
Not applicable

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Follow-ups of nonrespondent units/bodies
Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Adjustement methods to reduce the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Methods to estimate the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Recontact of the units
Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
Demo: demografia in cifre; I.Stat; Territorial Indicators; Sistema informativo territoriale sulla giustizia
Other data bases:
Banca dati Eurostat - Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union)
Press releases:
Separations and divorces in Italy. Year 2011
Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
Timeliness of final data:
10 months and 16 days