Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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Dec 04, 2025

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Courts: Main reason for visiting court (COURTREAIND)

Data file: individual-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20703

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Mean: 7.7957300874269

Standard deviation: 0.98336915950263

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	As a witness	83	0.4%
2	As the accused	207	1%
3	As the person who brought charges/litigant	220	1.1%
4	A civil/administrative matter (custody, divorce, eviction etc.)	136	0.7%
5	Just interested in the outcome of the matter	76	0.4%
6	To support a family member or a friend	235	1.1%
7	Other (specify)	64	0.3%
8	Not applicable	19682	95.1%

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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