South African Census 1996, 10% Sample

South Africa, 1996

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zaf-statssa-census-1996-v1.3

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Population Censuses and Surveys

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Marital status (marstau)

Data file: census-1996-person-v1.3

Overview

Valid: 3621201

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 32

loc_end_pos: 32

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Never married	2314607	63.9%
2	Married: Civil/religious	635761	17.6%
3	Married: Traditional	282046	7.8%
4	Living together	114548	3.2%
5	Widowed	119314	3.3%
6	Divorced/separated	65993	1.8%
8	N/A: Institution	63140	1.7%
9	Unspecified	25792	0.7%

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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