General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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South African Household Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Marital status (HHC_MARITAL)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-person-v1

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	344	34.4%
2	Living together like husband and wife/partners	46	4.6%
3	Divorced	22	2.2%
4	Separated, but still legally married	3	0.3%
5	Widowed	58	5.8%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before	4	0.4%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	521	52.2%
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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