Interviewer instructions
Question 10. Marital status (for persons aged 15 and over)
To be filled in for persons aged 15 and over.
Code 1 "never married" is to be encircled for persons who have never been either in a registered or in an unregistered (common law) marriage.
Code 2 "registered marriage" is to be encircled for persons presently married, with their marriage being registered with the Civil Registry Office.
Code 3 "unregistered marriage" (common law marriage) is to be encircled for persons presently married without registration with the Civil Registry Office.
For those married (codes 2 or 3), the enumerator is to specify in a special box the number of spouse assigned him/her in column 1 of the List of residents (the same number is specified against the family name in the spouse's enumeration form).
Code 4 "widowed" is to be encircled for persons who were married earlier (whether their marriage registered or not), but whose marriage stopped because of the death of the spouse and who have not remarried.
Code 5 "divorced" is to be encircled for persons who were earlier in a registered marriage, but at the moment are unmarried with their divorce being registered with Civil Registry Office.
Code 6 "separated" is to be encircled for persons who were earlier in a registered marriage, but at the moment are unmarried and do not jointly keep the house, with their divorce not registered with the registry office, as well as for persons who were earlier in unregistered marriage, but at the moment do not jointly keep the house.
This question is not to be addressed to persons under 15 years of age. Only if a person questioned does insist on his/her marriage, the corresponding code should be marked.
