P36. What is [the respondent's] marital status?

This question will be asked to all persons 12 years and older. Please, shade the appropriate response.

4.18.1 Never married

Never married category refers to those who have never been in any marital union (marriage). If this is the response skip to P-38

4.18.2 Married

Marriage is any permanent living arrangement between a man and woman to live together as husband and wife. This includes church marriages, other religiously approved unions, civil registration at a Boma or other civil ceremony that has been performed, and the man and woman are living as husband/wife at present. These are to be recorded as married.

4.18.3 Divorced

A man/woman permanently separated from the spouse and has no other spouse now will be included under this category.

4.18.4 Separated

A man or a woman who is temporarily out of a marital union, but not legally (Civil or Customary) divorced from his/her partner, and has no other wife/husband now.

4.18.5 Widowed

A man or woman whose partner died and has no wife/husband at present.

4.18.6 Cohabiting (Living together)

Cohabiting or living together category refers to a man and a woman living together as a married couple without any legal, customary or religious consent of the union. The dissolution of this union, therefore, does not require witnesses from the afore-mentioned authorities.