General Household Survey 2018

South Africa, 2018

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ZAF_2018_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Marital status (Q12aMARST)

Data file: ghs-2019-person-1.0-stata11

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Valid: 71137

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 47

End: 47

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	13410	18.9%
2	Living together like husband and wife/partners	5035	7.1%
3	Divorced	969	1.4%
4	Separated, but still legally married	420	0.6%
5	Widowed	3629	5.1%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before	744	1%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	46811	65.8%
9	Unspecified	119	0.2%

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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