101A) What is your marital status now: are you married, widowed, divorced, or separated?
IF THE WOMAN IS NOT MARRIED, WIDOWED, DIVORCED, OR SEPARATED, END THE INTERVIEW, AND CORRECT MARITAL STATUS AND ELIGIBILITY IN THE HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE
MARRIED 1
DIVORCED 2
WIDOWED 3
SEPARATED 4
NEVER MARRIED 5 (END)
Categories
Value
Category
0
Never married
1
Currently married
2
Formerly married
8
Missing
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Description
Definition
CURRMARR (V502) reports the woman's marital/union status as "Never married," "Currently married," or "Formerly married."
"Never married" includes women who have never lived with a partner. "Currently married" includes women who are married and those who are not formally married but are living with a partner. "Formerly married" includes women who are widowed, divorced, or separated, or who have formerly lived with a partner. For samples restricted to ever-married women, only women who are formally married (not cohabiting) are included as "married."