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: individual-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20703

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 4.7609042167802

Standard deviation: 2.6088187861637

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Married	4917	23.8%
2	Living together like husband and wife	1984	9.6%
3	Divorced	528	2.6%
4	Separated, but still legally married	198	1%
5	Widowed	1808	8.7%
6	Single, but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	614	3%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	10653	51.5%
9	Unspecified	1	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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