The purpose of this list is to identify the civil status of a person.

This list has been developed by HURIDOCS. It is based on a list included in the HURIDOCS Standard Formats: A Tool for Documenting Human Rights Violations (1). The original codes from this list are included in the column 1st ed. Code .

This is a short list with one level, as described in Rule No. 1 in the Introduction.

This Micro-thesaurus is used for field 918 Civil Status in the Person format.

CODE
 TERM
 1ST ED. CODE
 
01
 Single
 01
 
02
 Married
 02
 
03
 Widowed
 03
 
04
 Separated
 04
 
05
 Divorced
  
06
 Living with common-law spouse
  
07
 With partner
  
90
 Other
 09
 
99
 Unknown
  

(1) Dueck, Judith, et al. HURIDOCS Standard Formats: A Tool for Documenting Human Rights Violations. Oslo: HURIDOCS, 1993. 125.