Marriages and Divorces 2017

South Africa, 2017

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zaf-statssa-md-2017-v1

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Aug 05, 2020

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Aug 11, 2020

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Main grounds for divorce (GroundsForDivorce)

Data file: md-2017-divorces-v1

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Valid: 25390

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 22

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Adultery	2955	11.6%
2	Abuse	1485	5.8%
3	Childlessness	4	0%
4	Desertion	1884	7.4%
5	Financial difficulties	617	2.4%
6	Medical Insanity	16	0.1%
7	Imprisonment	38	0.1%
8	Other (Specify)	0	0%
9	Unspecified	18391	72.4%

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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