Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025

South Africa, 1993 - 2025

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zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4

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Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg

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Sep 05, 2013

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marital status (consistent coding for all waves) (marstat)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 7446716

Invalid: 844

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 72

loc_end_pos: 72

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. married or living together as husband and wife	1866583	25.1%
2	2. widow/widower	401410	5.4%
3	3. divorced or separated	146946	2%
4	4. never married	5031328	67.6%
9	9. unspecified	449	0%
Sysmiss		844

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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