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[riffraff]

and what is the practical purpose of marital status and whether you have children?

Those are also obvious things that allow discrimination, but I can't think of a reason why they would be of interest to my employeer.

EDIT: sorry this sounds a bit adversarial, but it was meant as a genuine question.

[DanBC → riffraff]

Some companies collect that data so they can check they're not discriminating. Ideally it's on a seperate sheet or different part of the website; the information is psuedo-anonymised and goes direct to HR and never goes to someone doing hiring.

[infinite8s → DanBC]

In the US this is typically collected after they hire you (where it can then go into said statistics).

[DanBC → infinite8s]

How do they check their processes pre-hiring? Like selection for interview?

[ptaipale → riffraff]

We did not ask marital status and whether people had children (this was in China: most applicants volunteered that information anyway.)

[riffraff → ptaipale]

I was referring to the "german solution" a few comments up, I thought you did too.