Personal identification data of all persons registered in the Municipal Basic Administration of Personal Data (GBA) who at one address with a partner form a (living) couple (from 01-10-1994)

This bus component from the Social Statistical File (SSB) of CBS is a key file for linking people who have (once) formed a cohabiting couple for an uninterrupted period of time. Of these cohabiting couples, the starting date and possibly the end date of cohabitation is included. The file is of the bus type. Bus type means that the data file (the component) has a form in which in a record (a row in the file) attributes are attached to an entity using a time key. The time key consists of a start date and an end date. When a change occurs in one or more attributes, a new record is created. There shall be no overlap in the time keys of successive records for a specific entity. More information on how to access the data: > https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/onze-diensten/maatwerk-en-microdata/microdata-zelf-onderzoek-doen ### Methodology The bus is intended to be able to retrieve information about partners in a cohabiting couple. Couples living together include both married and non-married couples. Unmarried couple: Two persons who have a cohabitation relationship but are not married to each other or have entered into a partnership registration. Married couple: Two persons who are married or have entered into a registered partnership together. Differences with the GBAHUISHOUDENSBUS: The number of partners in cohabiting couples in the PARTNERBUS is more than 5000 lower than in the GBAHUISHOUDENSBUS. In the HUISHOUDENSBUS, in addresses where the household composition changes more than 30 times a year, in a limited number of cases the household composition is not properly established. This creates incomplete pairs. Only the complete pairs are included in the PARTNERBUS. ### Population The partner bus contains all persons registered as of 1 October 1994 in the Municipal Basic Administration of Personal Data (GBA) who form a cohabiting couple at one address for a continuous period of time.