Victims of Crime Survey 2016-2017

South Africa, 2016 - 2017

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ZAF_2016_VCS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Marital status of the persons in the household (Q12MSTATUS)

Data file: vcs-2016-2017-ind-v1

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Valid: 70617

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 38

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Married	14206	20.1%
2	Living together like husband and wife	4961	7%
3	Divorced	973	1.4%
4	Separated; but still legally married	405	0.6%
5	Widowed	3617	5.1%
6	Single; but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	820	1.2%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	45368	64.2%
9	Unspecified	267	0.4%

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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