County-Level Marriage and Divorce Data, United States, 2011-2019

Contemporary local level marriage and divorce administrative data are not readily available. This can limit understanding of geographic variation in marriage and divorce, particularly for areas with small populations. There is no centralized location or agency responsible for providing administrative data on marriage and divorce at the local level. This project amassed, assembled, and cleaned administrative marriage and divorce counts, including counts of same-sex marriages, providing the first and only documentation of administrative data on same-sex marriages. Data have been harmonized spatiotemporally in a format to aid researchers in linking marriage and divorce data to other data sources by county, state, and year.