General Household Survey 2010

South Africa, 2010

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ZAF_2010_GHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jan 27, 2012

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Marital status (Q12amarst)

Data file: GHS 2010_Person_v2_20111018

Overview

Valid: 95918

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 44

End: 44

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1.2.a What is ……’s present marital status?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	18015	18.8%
2	Living together like husband and wife	6130	6.4%
3	Divorced	1249	1.3%
4	Separated; but still legally married	630	0.7%
5	Widowed	5435	5.7%
6	Single; but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before	917	1%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	63394	66.1%
9	Unspecified	148	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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