General Household Survey 2010

South Africa, 2010

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Marital status (Q12amarst)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2010-person-v2.2

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Valid: 998

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 42

loc_end_pos: 42

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	283	28.4%
2	Living together like husband and wife	83	8.3%
3	Divorced	16	1.6%
4	Separated; but still legally married	6	0.6%
5	Widowed	47	4.7%
6	Single; but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	4	0.4%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	558	55.9%
9	Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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