General Household Survey 2020

South Africa, 2020

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Marital status (hhc_marital)

Data file: ghs-2020-person-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	369	36.9%
2	Living together like husband and wife/partners	58	5.8%
3	Divorced	20	2%
4	Separated, but still legally married	4	0.4%
5	Widowed	41	4.1%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before	18	1.8%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	490	49%

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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