Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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Courts: Reason for visiting court (COURTREA)

Data file: household-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20788

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Mean: 7.6303155666731

Standard deviation: 1.3096585139247

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	As a witness	153	0.7%
2	As the accused	377	1.8%
3	As the person who brought charges/litigant	399	1.9%
4	A civil/administrative matter (custody, divorce, eviction etc.)	312	1.5%
5	Just interested in the outcome of the matter	114	0.5%
6	To support a family member or a friend	333	1.6%
7	Other (specify)	101	0.5%
8	Not applicable	18999	91.4%

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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