Interviewer instructions
5.7 Marital Information
P28 What is your marital status?
This question will be asked of all persons 12 years and older. Please, shade the appropriate response.
5.7.1 Married
Marriage is any permanent living arrangement between a man and woman to live together. This includes church marriages, other religiously approved unions, civil registration at a Boma or other civil ceremony that has been performed, and the man and woman are living as husband/wife at present. These are to be recorded as married and the first box should be shaded.
5.7.2 Separated
A man or a woman who is separated, but not legally (Civil or Customary) divorced from his/her partner, and has no other wife/husband now. Shade the second box provided.
5.7.3 Divorced
A man/woman permanently separated from the spouse and has no other spouse now will be included under this category.
5.7.4 Widowed
A man or woman whose partner died and has no wife/husband at present.
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5.7.5 Never Married
Never married category refers to those who have never been in any marital union (marriage).
5.7.6 Living Together/Cohabiting
Living together or cohabiting category refers to a man and a woman living together as a married couple without any legal, customary or religious consent of the union. The dissolution of this union, therefore, does not require witnesses from the afore-mentioned authorities.
