Literal question
<svar a="all" v="NI71A404"><span class="em">5. Marital status</span><br /><br />Are you single, married, in a consensual union, widowed or divorced?<br /><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Single<br />[] 2 Married<br />[] 3 Consensual union<br />[] 4 Widowed<br />[] 5 Divorced<br />[] 9 Unknown</div><br /></svar>
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="NI71A404"><span class="em">Question #5: Marital status</span><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">a. How to ask the question:</span><br />Is the person unmarried, married, in a consensual union, widowed, or divorced?<br /><br />The following definitions will help in the correct classification of each person according to their marital status or conjugal situation:</div><br /><div class="i2">1) <span class="em">Single</span>: The person who has never been married and who does not live in a consensual union.<br /><br />2) <span class="em">Married</span>: The person who has entered into a civil and/or religious marriage and who lives conjugally with their legal spouse.<br /><br />3) <span class="em">Consensual union</span>: A person who, without being legally or religiously married, lives in a conjugal union with another person of the opposite sex and has formed a family.<br /><br />4) <span class="em">Widowed</span>: A person, having been married or in a consensual union, whose spouse has passed away and who has not remarried and who does not live in a consensual union.<br /><br />5) <span class="em">Divorced</span>: A person whose marriage was legally dissolved and who has not remarried and who does not live in a consensual union. Included in this category are those in a de facto separation from a religious and/or civil marriage and who does not live in a consensual union.</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 50]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">b. How to record the information:</span><br />The different categories are mutually exclusive; therefore, only one box is marked with an "X" in the box corresponding to the marital status or conjugal situation of the enumerated person. The box unmarried is marked for minors.<br /><br /><span class="em">c. Examples:</span></div><br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graph of question 5 on the census form]<br /></svar>
