Literal question
5. What is your current civil or married state?
Ask in the order indicated and when you receive an answer, mark the corresponding box.
[] 1 Married
[] 2 Free union
[] 3 Widowed
[] 4 Divorced
[] 5 Separated
[] 6 Widowed from free union
[] 7 Separated from free union
[] 8 Single
[] 9 Not known
Interviewer instructions
G. Information of the people
169. Once the Section "F. Information of the home" is finished, you should ask the population questions to each one of the people who you are to enumerate.
When possible, you should try to make each person provide you with their own information. Only in the case of a person who is absent at the time of your visit, or if it concerns children, will you receive their information from a third party.
In each home, you will enumerate all people who slept in it the night before the "Day of the Census" or who, being absent this night for reasons of work, return to the home during the day. In such form, a doctor who did not sleep in his/her house because of being on guard in a hospital will be enumerated in their home. On the contrary, a traveler who spent many days away from their home will be enumerated in the place slept in during the night before the "Day of the Census."
I. General characteristics of all people
The questions included in this chapter are for knowing the distribution of the population by sex, age and civil state; their territorial distribution and movements made within the country in the last 5 years.
You should ask the questions in this chapter to all people who are to be enumerated in the home.
209. For question No. 5 "What is your current civil or married state?", you should read the list of possible responses, one by one, and in the order in which they are presented in the Census document, waiting for an affirmative response.
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When you get it, mark the corresponding box with an "X" and do not read the rest of the alternatives.
210. Register the civil or married state of the following people:
1. Mr. Rodríguez lives with a woman with whom he is not married.
2. The companion of Rodríguez did not finish divorce procedures from her previous marriage.
3. Their son is single.
4. Rodríguez's mother lives with them, since her husband died.
5. A brother of Rodríguez lives in the same home since he separated from his companion, with whom he was not married.
[Below the text are two forms, one of which is filled out as follows:
1. "Free union"
2. "Free union"
3. "Single"
4. "Widowed"
5. "Separated from free union"]
Note that the companion of Mr. Rodríguez, although legally still married to her previous husband, on the "Day of the Census" is in free union with Mr. Rodriguez.
211. How will you register the civil or married state of the following people?
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1. A lady who is married but does not live with her husband.
2. Mrs. Carmen Ramos de González who lives with her husband.
3. A person who just finished divorce proceedings.
4. A man who divorced his first wife, who lived next in free union and whose companion died last month.
[Below the text are two forms, one of which is filled out as follows:
1. "Separated"
2. "Married"
3. "Divorced"
4. "Widowed of free union"]
When a person has gone through many civil or married states, you should register the current one.
Look at question no. 5 in the Census document and suppose that you are interviewing a person to whom you ask the question in the following order:
What is your current civil or marital state? Married?
You wait for an answer; if negative you ask the following:
Free union?
You wait for an answer and if negative you ask the following:
Widowed?
Suppose that at this moment the person answers yes, then you should mark the box "Widow" with an X and go to question no. 6.
