Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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Marital status of the persons in the household (Maritalstatus)

Data file: household-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20788

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 7

Mean: 4.1130940927458

Standard deviation: 2.5664884064723

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Married	6334	30.5%
2	Living together like husband and wife	2137	10.3%
3	Divorced	750	3.6%
4	Separated, but still legally married	283	1.4%
5	Widowed	3351	16.1%
6	Single, but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	773	3.7%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	7160	34.4%

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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