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 Mean age of men at divorce (Year)
Characteristic Description
Name Mean age of men at divorce (Year) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2002); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Demographic indicators
First available period 2000
Last available period 2013
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2002)
Concepts
  • DIVORCE:  Legal and definitive dissolution of the constraints of marriage, in the lifetime of both parties, at request of one party against the other (litigious type) or at request of both parties (mutual consent form), confering to each party the right to marry again.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • 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).
Definition With Law No. 61/ 2008, from October 31st, has changed the concept of divorce ceasing the litigious type.
DIVORCE - Legal and final dissolution of the marriage bond in the lifetime of the spouses, at the request of one against the other (divorce without the consent of a spouse) or of both (divorce by mutual consent), giving each one the right to marry again.
Measure unit (symbol) Year (Year)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/09/2014


information presented in 5/11/2025