General Household Survey 2011

South Africa, 2011

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Marital status (Q12amarst)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2011-person-v1.2

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Valid: 998

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	291	29.2%
2	Living together like husband and wife	57	5.7%
3	Divorced	31	3.1%
4	Separated, but still legally married	3	0.3%
5	Widowed	52	5.2%
6	Single, but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	9	0.9%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	553	55.4%
9	Unspecified	2	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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