South African Census 1980

South Africa, 1980

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zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3

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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)

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South African Population Censuses and Surveys

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Oct 18, 2012

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Marital status (MARITAL)

Data file: sa-census-1980-v1.3

Overview

Valid: 25016525

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 23

loc_end_pos: 23

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	15840666	63.3%
2	Married	7350397	29.4%
3	Living together	708534	2.8%
4	Widow/Widower	868591	3.5%
5	Divorced	248337	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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