Guidance

Separated families statistics: background information and methodology

This document provides background information about the separated families statistics and information on how they are compiled.

Documents

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This document provides an explanation of the separated families statistics, their aims and the methodology used to compile the data used in the statistics.

Published 17 April 2019
Last updated 21 March 2024 + show all updates
  1. Revised background information and methodology document (now dated March 2024). This has been updated to support the latest release of separated families statistics (also published today, 21 March 2023).

  2. Revised background information and methodology document (now dated March 2023). This has been updated to support the latest release of separated families statistics (also published today, 23 March 2023).

  3. Revised background information and methodology document (now dated March 2022) - updated to support the latest release of separated families statistics, also published today (31 March 2021).

  4. Revised background information and methodology document (now dated March 2021) — updated to support the latest release of separated families statistics, also published today (25 March 2021).

  5. Updated background information and methodology document (now dated March 2020). Revised to support the latest release of separated families population statistics, also published today (26 March 2020).

  6. First published.