General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_2022_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_ESS

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Government of South Africa, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

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Agricultural Surveys

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Feb 19, 2024

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Marital status (hhc_marital)

Data file: ghs-2022-person-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	275	27.5%
2	Living together like husband and wife/partners	58	5.8%
3	Divorced	28	2.8%
4	Separated, but still legally married	9	0.9%
5	Widowed	70	7%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before	11	1.1%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	543	54.3%
9	Unspecified	6	0.6%

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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