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Current Marriage and Defacto Relationship Variables

The relationship section of the person questionnaires involve relatively complicated skips (especially from wave 2 onwards), so several partnering variables have been derived as set out in the table below.

Table 17: Derived current marriage and defacto relationship variables

Variable	Description
_MRCURR	DV: Marital status from person questionnaire
_ORDRLT ¹	DV: NPQ: Years living together, first defacto excluding current
_ORDFRLT ²	DV: NPQ: Years living together, most recent defacto excluding current

1	Waves 1 and from 4 onwards (NPQ).
2	Waves 2 and 3 only.

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