Marriage for same-sex partners
What you should know about this indicator
The indicator is coded as follows: Legal (equal marriage is legal and fully implemented. There might be civil unions or not), Partially legal (equal marriage is legal, but not fully implemented. There might be civil unions or not), _No legal provisions_ (there are no laws regulating marriage equality nor civil unions), Ban and marriage both partial (equal marriage is partially implemented or equal marriage is banned but not fully implemented. Civil unions are partially implemented as well), Partially banned (equal marriage is banned but not fully implemented or it is banned but there is partial implementation of civil unions or equal marriage) and Banned (equal marriage is banned and fully implemented. There are no civil unions).
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From the original dataset, we combined data from three different indicators: marriage equality, ban on marriage equality and civil unions.
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“Data Page: Marriage for same-sex partners”, part of the following publication: Bastian Herre and Pablo Arriagada (2023) - “LGBT+ Rights”. Data adapted from Velasco. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/marriage-for-same-sex-partners-velasco [online resource]
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Velasco (2020) – with major processing by Our World in Data
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Velasco (2020) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Marriage for same-sex partners” [dataset]. Velasco, “LGBT+ policies (Kristopher Velasco)” [original data]. Retrieved December 10, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/marriage-for-same-sex-partners-velasco