Interviewer instructions
F3. Ask these questions to all persons 10 years old or older
36. Currently [the respondent] is:
This question refers to the civil or conjugal state of a person at the moment of the census. That is to say, the personal state of each individual in relation to the laws or customs of the country about matrimony.
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Take into account the following criteria:
In consensual union
Persons are in this category who, at the moment of the census, live in marital union and have constituted a family, without existing civil or religious marital ties. This union should be of stable character.
Separated or divorced
A person whose union (married or free union) has been dissolved by legal or de facto means and have not married again and do not live in free union.
Widowed
A person who was married or in free union and has not married again and does not live in free union after the death of their last spouse.
Married
It includes persons who have been legally married according to the religions of any creed (Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, etc.) or according to civil law (in front of a judge or notary) and who at the moment of the census live in this state.
Single
Persons who never have married and do not live in free union are considered singles.
