Interviewer instructions
Question 5. What is your current marital or conjugal status?
With this question we want to know what the current marital or conjugal status of the person being enumerated is, that is, on the date of the Census. After asking the question, read the alternatives as they are presented on the Form, wait for the response and mark the corresponding box, keeping in mind the following concepts.
1. Married or Consensual Union: Married person, is a person who has entered into matrimony, whether civil, religious, or both and currently lives in that state.
Person in a consensual union, is a person who currently is joined to their partner in a stable way, without having celebrated a legal wedding.
2. Widower (Widow): Is a person who, having been married or in a union, has lost their partner through death and who at the time of the Census has not remarried nor lives in a consensual union.
3. Separated or Divorced: Separated person, is one who, having entered into legal matrimony or having been in a union, doesn't currently live in that state due to having a de facto separation.
Divorced person, is one who, having entered into legal matrimony, doesn't currently live in that state, due to having legally separated, that is, through a judicial pronouncement.
4. Single: Is a person who has never entered into matrimony, either civil or religious, nor been in a union with another person.
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Important: the marital status of the head and of their spouse should coincide, as should that of the other couples who live in the household.
