Marriages and Divorces 2020

South Africa, 2020

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zaf-statssa-md-2020-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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Civil Registration Data

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Mar 28, 2022

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Mar 28, 2022

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Main grounds for divorce (GroundsForDivorce)

Data file: md-2020-divorces-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 22

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Adultery	117	11.7%
2	Abuse	38	3.8%
3	Childlessness	0	0%
4	Desertion	139	13.9%
5	Financial difficulties	24	2.4%
6	Medical Insanity	0	0%
7	Imprisonment	0	0%
8	Other (Specify)	0	0%
9	Unspecified	682	68.2%

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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