Marriages and Divorces 2024

South Africa, 2024

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zaf-statssa-md-2024-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/nbz2-1504

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Statistics South Africa

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May 08, 2026

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May 13, 2026

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Marital status of wife (FemaleStatus)

Data file: md-2024-divorces-v1

Overview

Valid: 24202

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 1.4460788364598

Standard deviation: 1.5799052798902

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Never married	21426	88.5%
2	2. Widow	240	1%
3	3. Divorcee	1622	6.7%
9	9. Unspecified	914	3.8%

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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