Ukrainian population census Distribution of the population by marital status (0,1) Thematic section: Explanations for the table: Demographic characteristics and birth rate Thematic group: Marital status The current accounting of marriages takes into account only marriage which are registered legally. Marriage is considered contracted from the moment of its registration in the bodies of state registration of civil status acts. Total marriage coefficient (marriages per 1000 persons of actual population) is calculated as the ratio of the number of registered marriages during a calendar year to the average annual number of actual population. Time characteristics: Census dates: Territorial characteristics: Units of measurement: Notes: Annual average population is calculated as the mean arithmetic value at the beginning and the end of a year. census date 1979(17.01), 1989(12.01), 2001(05.12) 0 – Ukraine, 1 - Region and towns of state importance persons, percent Information is given for the population of 15 years old and over. In some cases small deviations of the results from the sum of constituents are explained by rounding the data and also due to the persons which did not respond to certain questions of the census questionnaire. Extra notes: The list of settlements of administrative-territorial division (variable Region) is presented in transliteration. The English version of some transliterated Ukrainian words is presented below: Region = rehion / oblast City = misto (m.) Council (municipality) = rada City council = miskrada State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Main Statistical Office in L’viv region