Literal question
<span class="h2">VII. People in the census household</span></p>
<p><span class="em">For all individuals</span>
<br />[Questions 1 - 8 were asked for all persons]</p>
<p>5. Current marital status</p>
<div class="i1">Are you married, living together, single, widowed, and divorced or separated?</div><div class="i1">[] 1 Married<br />[] 2 Living together<br />[] 3 Single<br />[] 4 Widowed<br />[] 5 Divorced or separated<br />[] 9 Unknown</div>
Interviewer instructions
<svar v="GT81A402 GT81A403 GT81A404 GT81A405 GT81A406 GT81A408 GT81A409 GT81A410 GT81A411 GT81A412 GT81A413 GT81A414 GT81A415"><span class="h2">A. First block: personal characteristics (for all persons)</span><br /><br />This part of the census form is designed to study the composition of the population according to the following characteristics: relationship to the head of household, sex, age, marital status, maternal orphanhood, ethnicity, and disabilities.<br /><br />Questions 1-8 are presented to all enumerated persons, without exception, following the specific instructions presented below:<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="GT81A405"><span class="em">Question 5: current marital status</span><br /><br />1. How to formulate the question<br /><br />Are you married, living in a consensual union, unmarried, widowed, divorced, or separated?<br /><br />The following definitions will help the enumerator to correctly classify each person according to their marital status at the date of the census:<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 67]</span><br /><br /><span class="em">a) Married</span>: Those who have entered into a legal marriage and live with their spouse; that is, they are not widowed, divorced, or separated.<br /><br /><span class="em">b) In union (consensual union)</span>: Those who are not legally married but who live in a consensual or de facto union with another person.<br /><br /><span class="em">c) Single</span>: Those who have never entered into a legal marriage and do not live in a consensual union.<br /><br /><span class="em">d) Divorced or separated from a marriage or consensual union</span>: Those whose marriage has been legally dissolved or those who are separated from their spouse and who have not remarried or entered into another consensual union.<br /><br />It is not necessary to ask this question to those under 13 years of age; in these cases, "3. single" is marked.<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br />The different categories are mutually exclusive, therefore, only the number corresponding to the marital status of the enumerated person is marked.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 5 of the census form]<br /></svar>
