General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Marital status (hhc_marital)

Data file: ghs-2024-person-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	275	27.5%
2	Living together like husband and wife/partners	72	7.2%
3	Divorced	23	2.3%
4	Separated, but still legally married	1	0.1%
5	Widowed	56	5.6%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before	4	0.4%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	569	56.9%
9	Unspecified	0	0%

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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