Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series 1995-2024

South Africa, 1995 - 2024

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zaf-df-pases-1995-2024--v1

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Andrew Kerr, Amy Thornton, Martin Wittenberg

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Nov 21, 2025

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marital status with cohabiting; note 2002-4 omit cohabiting (marstat)

Data file: pasesv1

Overview

Valid: 2445696

Invalid: 2354

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 85

loc_end_pos: 85

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. married	520504	21.3%
2	2. living together	116710	4.8%
3	3. divorced or separated	45912	1.9%
4	4. widowed	127591	5.2%
5	5. never married	1634979	66.9%
Sysmiss		2354

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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