19. What is your current marital status?
Ask each question in the order given and upon receiving an affirmative response, mark the appropriate box.
[] 1 Consensual union?
[] 2 Married?
[] 3 Separated or divorced?
[] 4 Widowed?
[] 5 Single?
[] 6 Unanswered
1. In this section there are two questions: number 18 and number 19. Remember that you should ask question 18 of all women who are twelve years old and older.
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5. The last question on the census is number 19. This question will be answered by all of the [persons] of [12] years or older (consult the census form).
Ask one question at a time in the indicated order, and when you receive an affirmative response, mark the corresponding box.
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6. How would you place the following answers in the census form next to question number 19?
--Single person who lives with her partner under martial condition and in stable condition, without having contracted legal marriage.
[]2 Married?
[]3 Separated or divorced?
[]4 Widow?
[]5 Single?
[]6 Don't know
-- Single person who has never been married and also does not live in a consensual union.
[]2 Married?
[]3 Separated or divorced?
[]4 Widow?
[x]5 Single?
[]6 Don't know
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7. If you receive this answer:
"Three years ago I was widowed and then I remarried; currently I live with my second wife."
Would you mark box 2 or 4?: [Box 2]
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8. If in the previous case you mark box number 4 you will be making a mistake, because you should consider the marital status on the day of the census.
If another person tells you: "Five years ago I got married, shortly after, I separated from my wife and now I live in a union without contracting legal marriage. For the effects of the census, the marital status is:
[]2 Married?
[]3 Separated or divorced?