Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/z52z-re15

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South African Income Survey Data

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Dec 19, 2025

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Present marital status of each household member (HHC_MARITAL)

Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1

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Valid: 70339

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 36

loc_end_pos: 36

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married (include customary, traditional,religious	11167	15.9%
2	Living together like husband and wife	4339	6.2%
3	Divorced	1076	1.5%
4	Separated, but still legally married	364	0.5%
5	Widowed	3153	4.5%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife/partners before	2214	3.1%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	31655	45%
8		16371	23.3%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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