Marriages and Divorces 2021

South Africa, 2021

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zaf-statssa-md-2021-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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Civil Registration Data

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Mar 04, 2023

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Mar 04, 2023

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Main grounds for divorce (GroundsForDivorce)

Data file: md-2021-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	202	20.2%
2	Abuse	92	9.2%
3	Childlessness	0	0%
4	Desertion	75	7.5%
5	Financial difficulties	34	3.4%
6	Medical Insanity	0	0%
7	Imprisonment	1	0.1%
8	Other (Specify)	0	0%
9	Unspecified	596	59.6%

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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