General Household Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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ZAF_2016_GHS_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 14, 2017

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Marital status (Q12aMARST)

Data file: GHS 2016 Person v1.1 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 72602

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 47

End: 47

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	14003	19.3%
2	Living together like husband and wife	5083	7%
3	Divorced	934	1.3%
4	Separated, but still legally married	406	0.6%
5	Widowed	3809	5.2%
6	Single, but have been living together with someone as husband and/wife before	720	1%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	47539	65.5%
9	Unspecified	108	0.1%

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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