General Household Survey 2013

South Africa, 2013

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ZAF_2013_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Statistics South Africa

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Marital status (Q12aMARST)

Data file: ghs-2013-person-v1-20140620

Overview

Valid: 93749

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 43

End: 43

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	18281	19.5%
2	Living together like husband and wife	5650	6%
3	Divorced	1234	1.3%
4	Separated, but still legally married	619	0.7%
5	Widowed	5341	5.7%
6	Single, but have been living together with someone as husband and/wife before	769	0.8%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	61804	65.9%
9	Unspecified	51	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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