"A life table by marital status presents a distribution among the four marital statuses, i.e. never married, married, widowed and divorced, for a range of ages, starting at a specific age with an initial (fictitious) cohort of males or females.  The numbers of survivors in each marital status are computed using sex, age and marital status-specific quotients concerning death or changes in marital status."  The geographical focus is on the Netherlands. (SUMMARY IN ENG)