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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Civil Registration Data

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May 08, 2026

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May 13, 2026

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RECODE of MarriagePropertySystem2 (Matrimonial property system) (MarriagePropertySystem)

Data file: md-2024-divorces-v1

Overview

Valid: 24202

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 1.5189653747624

Standard deviation: 1.4611166910114

Type: Discrete

Width: 58

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. In community of property	19826	81.9%
2	2. Out of community of property	1280	5.3%
3	3. Out of community of property (excluding accrual system)	1188	4.9%
4	4. Out of community of property (including accrual system)	1272	5.3%
9	9. Unspecified	636	2.6%

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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