Legally Registered Relationship Status

Questionnaire module

Requirements

The legally registered relationship status questionnaire module must:

• collect, at a minimum, level 1 of the classification: 'married/civil union (not separated)'; 'separated/dissolved/widowed/surviving partner'; and 'never married and never in a civil union'
• specify that people’s legally registered relationship status with respect to their marriage or civil union is required
• instruct respondents that their most recent legally registered relationship status is required.

Example

The example below was used in the 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings. It will need to be updated to include 'dissolved civil unions' for the 2011 Census. Consultation will help determine whether any other changes are needed. Once those decisions have been made, the questionnaire module in this statistical standard will be updated.