# CD.COM.02 marital\_status

Marital status reference database: Standardised codes/values representing different marital status categories. 

Reference: [FHIR Marital Status](https://hl7.org/fhir/DSTU2/valueset-marital-status.html)

<table><thead><tr><th width="90.5" align="center">Code </th><th width="176">Values </th><th>Description </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center">S</td><td>Never Married</td><td>No marriage contract ever entered into</td></tr><tr><td align="center">M</td><td>Married</td><td>Current marriage contract is active</td></tr><tr><td align="center">W</td><td>Widow</td><td>Spouse has died</td></tr><tr><td align="center">A</td><td>Annulled</td><td>Marriage contract declared null and not to have existed</td></tr><tr><td align="center">D</td><td>Divorced</td><td>Marriage contract declared dissolved and inactive</td></tr><tr><td align="center">L</td><td>Legally Separated</td><td>Legally separated</td></tr><tr><td align="center">U</td><td>Unmarried</td><td>Not presently married, marital history is not known or stated</td></tr></tbody></table>

**Marital\_status** can also be encoded as an enum[^1] data type.

### JSON-LD File on GitHub

{% embed url="<https://schema.spdci.org/core/v1/code/MaritalStatusEnum.jsonld>" %}

[^1]: is this short-form widely used? if not, please use the full form


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