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marital status Audio
mar·i·tal sta·tus
Subclass of:
Family Characteristics
Definitions related to marital status:
  • A demographic parameter indicating a person's status with respect to marriage, divorce, widowhood, singleness (SINGLE PERSON), etc.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • The domestic partnership status of a person. Example(s): For the U.S. Census 2000: Now Married, Widowed, Separated, Divorced, Never Married.
    BRIDG Model Dictionary
    Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group, 2019
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