Interviewer instructions
Question 4
-- What is the current marital status?
Depending on circumstances, the marital status of the person can be:
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-- In union: One who is not legally married but lives with another forming a stable conjugal union.
-- Married:One who has entered into marriage according to the Law and lives with his/her spouse.
-- Separated:A married person who is separated from his/her spouse, whether in the process of divorce or not.
-- Widowed:The person who has not remarried or entered into a consensual union with another person after the death of his/her spouse.
-- Single:The person who has never entered into a legal marriage, whose first marriage has been annulled, or who currently does not live with another person in a state of matrimony.
-- Divorced:One whose marriage has been legally dissolved and has not remarried or who currently does not live with another person in a state of matrimony.
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