Interviewer instructions
VI Civil State
With this section, the distribution of the population according to its current civil state, number of unions (marriages or free unions), age of the first union, and average time in the first union are known.
This section is applied to all people 12 years old or older.
6.1 Civil state
The goal of this question is to identify the conjugal situation or civil state that the person currently has.
Civil state permits us to distinguish the population 12 years old or old being found currently united (by marriage or free union), not united (by death, separation or divorce) or single.
Read each of the options and upon receiving an affirmative answer, register the code that corresponds in the box meant for it. Respect the order of the six options and do not presuppose the civil state of people.
If a person has double civil state (one legal and one de facto), the current one is registered or the one corresponding to the moment of the interview.
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Below the options that this question has are mentioned.
Lives in free union?...1
It refers to people who live as a pair without legally or religiously formalizing their union.
Is widowed?...2
They are people whose pair or companion has died and have not been married again, nor live in free union with a companion.
Is separated?...3
It refers to people who do not live with their pair or companion, without getting divorced, including those who have lived in free union and currently do not live with their pair.
When the dynamic of the interview permits you to know that a person has lived in free union and declares him or herself as single because of not living with the pair, clarify it with the informant, saying "ok, but you told me before that you lived in free union;" if the response is "yes but we separated" then register it in this option.
Is divorced?...4
It alludes to people who legally separated from their pair or companion and currently do not live with another pair or have not married again.
Is married?...5
Corresponds to people who are married, either legally, religiously or both.
People married only civilly, only by the church or both, should be classified in this option.
Is single?
They are people who have not married (civil or religiously) and never have lived in free union.
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When writing this option down, go to 7.1.
In this question, consider that a precedent exists of which a person because of being asked has a pair, because the informant said so, ask the question with option 1, if the answer is "no" continue with option 5, for example: Currently does (Name) live in free union?
Wait for the answer; if it is "yes" write down number 1, on the contrary, continue: Is (Name) married?
If the answer is yes, write down code 5.
