California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Incidence of cancer and sites of cancer have shown correlations to marital status. These patterns are also different among races. Thus this data item is very important to researchers for the reportable neoplasm.
Common Law Marriage: A couple living together for a period of time and declaring themselves as married to friends, family, and the community, having never gone through a formal ceremony or obtained a marriage license.
Report the patient's marital status at the time of first diagnosis for the reportable neoplasm.
Code |
Description |
1 |
Single (never married, including only marriage annulled) |
2 |
Married (including common law) |
3 |
Separated |
4 |
Divorced |
5 |
Widowed |
6 |
Unmarried or Domestic Partner (same sex or opposite sex, registered or unregistered, NOT including common law) |
9 |
Unknown |