Literal question
Section 7: Union status and fertility
(Female age 14 and older who are not full-time students at a primary or secondary school)
7.1. Mark the appropriate answer (see Question 3.6)
[] Married (go to Question 7.2)
[] Never married (go to Question 7.3)
[] Widowed, divorced, separated (go to Question 7.4)
[] Not stated
Interviewer instructions
Section 7 - Union Status and Fertility
5.76 General
This section is comprised of Question 7.1 - 7.14 and the information is to be completed only for females 14 years or older who are not attending primary or secondary school full-time. Part-time students at these schools as well as students of tertiary institutions are eligible for
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answering these questions.
The questions in this section can be seen to be of a very personal nature and you must assure the respondent that this type of information is very crucial to population planning as they provide very useful indicators of family formation and population growth.
Questions on Union Status indicate the type of family associations or relationships in which women are involved. Union Status is not to be confused with Legal Marital Status (Question 3.6), union status refers to the actual relationship in which a woman is involved. A woman can be involved in either of the following:
(i) She could be married and living with her husband.
(ii) She could be living together with a partner to whom she is not legally married. This is referred to as living common-law. It is important to note that because we are interested in union status and not legal marital status, we have to find out from women who are married whether they are currently living with their husbands.
