10-29-2008

hdl:1902.29/10312

The North Carolina State Center for Health Services (SCHS) collects yearly vital statistics. The Odum Institute holds vital statistics beginning in 1978 for births, fetal deaths, deaths, birth/infant deaths, marriages and divorce. Marriage and divorce data was collected by the SCHS until 1999. North Carolina law defines marriage as the legal union of a male and a female (G.S. 51-1). Legal divorce or annulment can occur only by decree of an authorized court. Annulments, which void marria ge from the beginning, constitute less than one percent of the sum of these events. A divorce from bed and board is a judicial separation suspending cohabitation but not otherwise affecting the marriage bond. Divorces from bed and board are not included in these files. This study focuses on North Carolina divorces for 1978. Data includes information on the age and race of the plaintiff; information on the number of minor children; grounds for divorce; as well as the place, state, and date of the marriage. The data is strictly numerical, there is no identifying information given about the individuals.

State Center for Health Statistics, 2014, "North Carolina Vital Statistics -- Divorces 1978", http://hdl.handle.net/1902.29/10312

State Center for Health Statistics

Harvard University

SCR:011273

DataVerse

Dataverse Network Project

SCR:001997