Victims of Crime Survey 2017-2018

South Africa, 2017 - 2018

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Dec 04, 2019

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Marital status of the persons in the household (Q12MSTATUS)

Data file: vcs-2017-2018-person-v1

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Valid: 71687

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 78

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Married	14297	19.9%
2	Living together like husband and wife	4892	6.8%
3	Divorced	986	1.4%
4	Separated; but still legally married	361	0.5%
5	Widowed	3734	5.2%
6	Single; but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	940	1.3%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	46163	64.4%
9	Unspecified	314	0.4%

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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