Divorces

Purpose and brief description The statistic includes all divorces recorded in the civil register of Belgian municipalities. As a result, this statistic also includes all divorces for marriages not contracted in Belgium and not included in the statistics on marriages. The registration of a divorce is done at the municipality where the marriage was contracted. If the marriage was contracted abroad, the divorce is entered in the register of the municipality of Brussels, which explains the special situation of this municipality in this matter. The various tables cover: the evolution of the number of divorces per region and per province, the divorces of the year broken down by age group and by region, by previous civil status and by region, by duration of the dissolved marriage and by region. They also cover the evolution of the number of divorced persons who were married to a person of the same sex. But this last table has another source. Population All divorces Frequency Annually Timing of publication Results available 8 months after the reference period. Definitions Nationality of the first spouse: Country of the first spouse’s nationality. Nationality of the second spouse: Country of the second spouse’s nationality. Occupation of the first spouse: Occupation, function or main craft of the first spouse. Occupation of the second spouse: Occupation, function or main craft of the second spouse. Professional status of the first spouse: Professional situation of the first spouse (manager / self-employed / employee / worker / helper / without / unknown). Professional status of the second spouse: Professional situation of the second spouse (manager / self-employed / employee / worker / helper / without / unknown). Municipality of divorce: Municipality of the divorce registration, i.e. the municipality where the marriage was contracted or the city of Brussels for marriages contracted abroad. Age of the first spouse at divorce: Age of the first spouse at divorce, expressed in completed years, calculated as the difference between the date of the divorce registration and the date of birth. Age of the second spouse at divorce: Age of the second spouse at divorce, expressed in completed years, calculated as the difference between the date of the divorce registration and the date of birth. Month of divorce: Month of divorce, from the date of the divorce registration in the civil register of the municipality. Remarks In the framework of the administrative simplification and in application of the Law of 5 May 2014 on the establishment of the principle of the unique data collection (Only Once), the Directorate-General Statistics – Statistics Belgium decided in 2015 to no longer use the bulletins of the FPS Home Affairs to produce statistics on marriages and divorces, but to use data from the National Register (RNPP) for this purpose. As a result of this source change, the marriage and divorce forms could be abolished (Royal Decree of 19 February 2016). But it also brought about important changes in the statistic produced: Registration of the gender of spouses, allowing a distinction to be made between types of marriages and divorces; Processing in a statistic in law of the events that took place abroad concerning persons residing in Belgium; The identification of divorces that have been granted and registered in Belgium and that put an end to the marriages that have been contracted abroad gives a better approach to divorces. 2016 is the first year in which the RNPP is the exclusive source of the statistic. But using the RNPP also makes it possible to produce comprehensive statistics for 2015, as well as a large number of data for 2014, which makes a comparison with previous statistics on civil status possible. In the case of divorces, the use of the RNPP makes it possible to identify those divorces that put an end to a marriage that was contracted abroad. The large majority of these marriages are registered in Brussels-Capital. In 2016, 3,666 divorces were granted in Belgium or abroad (15.5 % of the total), which put an end to the same number of marriages contracted abroad. They are therefore included in the calculation of the gross divorce rate, which has fallen slightly (2.1 ‰, for 2.2 ‰ in 2015); but they are excluded from the calculation of the total divorce rate. Metadata Divorces.pdf### 统计用途与概况 本统计涵盖比利时各市政民事登记处备案的全部离婚登记事项。因此，本统计同时包含未在比利时缔结、且未纳入婚姻统计的婚姻对应的离婚登记。离婚登记办理地为婚姻缔结地市政机构；若婚姻在境外缔结，则离婚登记将录入布鲁塞尔市政登记系统，这也造就了布鲁塞尔在该统计中的特殊地位。 各统计表涵盖以下内容：按大区及省份划分的离婚登记数量变化；按年龄组、大区划分的年度离婚数据，按既往婚姻状况、大区划分的年度离婚数据，按已解除婚姻存续时长、大区划分的年度离婚数据；还涵盖与同性配偶离婚的人数变化情况，但该类统计表另有数据来源。 ### 统计对象与发布规则 统计对象：全部离婚登记事项 统计频率：年度 结果发布时效：参考时段结束后8个月方可获取统计结果 ### 术语定义 1. 配偶一方国籍：指配偶一方的国籍国 2. 配偶另一方国籍：指配偶另一方的国籍国 3. 配偶一方职业：指配偶一方的职业、职务或主要从业领域 4. 配偶另一方职业：指配偶另一方的职业、职务或主要从业领域 5. 配偶一方职业身份：指配偶一方的从业状态（管理人员/个体经营者/雇员/工人/辅助人员/无业/未知） 6. 配偶另一方职业身份：指配偶另一方的从业状态（管理人员/个体经营者/雇员/工人/辅助人员/无业/未知） 7. 离婚登记市政机构：指办理离婚登记的市政单位，即婚姻缔结地市政机构；若婚姻在境外缔结，则为布鲁塞尔市 8. 配偶一方离婚时年龄：指配偶一方在办理离婚登记时的实足年龄，以离婚登记日期与出生日期的差值计算得出，以完整周岁为单位 9. 配偶另一方离婚时年龄：指配偶另一方在办理离婚登记时的实足年龄，以离婚登记日期与出生日期的差值计算得出，以完整周岁为单位 10. 离婚登记月份：指离婚登记的月份，以市政民事登记处的离婚登记日期为准 ### 备注说明 为推进行政简化工作，并落实2014年5月5日颁布的《关于确立唯一数据采集原则（仅一次采集）》的法案，比利时统计局（Statistics Belgium）总司于2015年决定，不再使用内政部联邦公共服务局（FPS Home Affairs）的公报编制婚姻与离婚统计数据，转而采用国家登记册（National Register, RNPP）作为数据来源。 此次数据源变更后，婚姻与离婚登记表格得以废止（依据2016年2月19日颁布的皇家法令），同时也为统计工作带来了多项重要改进： - 新增配偶性别登记项，可实现不同类型婚姻与离婚的区分统计； - 可依法对居住在比利时的人员在境外发生的相关事件进行统计处理； - 可识别在比利时获批并登记、且已解除境外缔结婚姻的离婚事项，进一步优化离婚统计的覆盖范围与准确性。 2016年为首次完全以RNPP作为统计唯一数据源的年份。但依托RNPP，亦可完成2015年全年度统计数据的编制，同时获取2014年的大量统计数据，从而实现与既往民政统计数据的对比分析。 针对离婚统计而言，使用RNPP可识别出所有解除境外缔结婚姻的离婚事项，其中绝大多数此类婚姻的登记地均为布鲁塞尔首都大区。 2016年，比利时境内及境外共获批3666例离婚登记（占总登记量的15.5%），对应同期解除的境外缔结婚姻数量亦为3666例。此类离婚纳入粗离婚率（gross divorce rate）的计算范畴，使得粗离婚率较2015年的2.2‰小幅下降至2.1‰；但未被纳入总离婚率（total divorce rate）的计算。 ### 元数据文件 Divorces.pdf