Mortality and Causes of Death 2006

South Africa, 2006

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ZAF_2006_MCD_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa, South Africa. Department of Home Affairs

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Marital status of deceased (MStatus)

Data file: MCDDN 2006_v1

Overview

Valid: 621378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 23

End: 23

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Single	313529	50.5%
2	Civil marriage	73528	11.8%
3	Living as married	19813	3.2%
4	Widowed	50252	8.1%
5	Religious law marriage	14460	2.3%
6	Divorced	8681	1.4%
7	Customary marriage	39764	6.4%
8	Unknown	2697	0.4%
9	Unspecified	98654	15.9%

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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