General Household Survey 2013

South Africa, 2013

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Marital status (Q12aMARST)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2013-person-v1.1

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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	261	26.2%
2	Living together like husband and wife	88	8.8%
3	Divorced	14	1.4%
4	Separated, but still legally married	6	0.6%
5	Widowed	49	4.9%
6	Single, but have been living together with someone as husband and/wife before	10	1%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	569	57%
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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