ZAF_2017_MD_v01_M
Marriages and Divorces 2017
Name | Country code |
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South Africa | ZAF |
Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth]
Statistics South Africa. Marriages and Divorces 2017 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2019. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/7362-9a65
Administrative records data [adm]
Individuals
Version 1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
2019
Version 1 of the Marriages and Divorces 2017 dataset was downloaded from the Statistics South Africa website on the 5 August 2020
Marriage data covers province of registration, date and type of marriage (religious or civil) and age (and age difference) and status (e.g. single/widow/divorcee) of marital couple.
Divorce data includes individual level data: Age, gender and population group, status, and occupation and number of children. Data is also collected on the marriage (date, number, type and duration, and matrimonial property system) and the divorce (date of separation and date of divorce).
National coverage
The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province
The data covers all civil marriages that were recorded by the Department of Home Affairs and all divorce applications that were granted by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in 2017 in South Africa.
Name |
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Statistics South Africa |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Department of Home Affairs | Government of South Africa | Data producer |
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development | Government of South Africa | Data producer |
Start | End |
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2017-01-01 | 2017-12-31 |
The marriage data is provided to Statistics South Africa by the South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) from their marriage registration database based on registration forms.
The divorce data is obtained by Statistic South Africa from the South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development from administrative records on divorces granted for civil marriages by its divorce courts.
Geography is problematic in this dataset as not all the data files have geographic data. The Civil Marriages and Civil Unions data files include a Province of Registration variable, but the Customary Marriages data file does not. There is also no geographical data in the Divorces file. As this data file includes divorce data from only a subset of divorce courts, this lack of geographical information compromises its usability.
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | http://support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Public use files, available to all
Statistics South Africa. Marriages and Divorces 2017 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2019. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/7362-9a65
Copyright 2013, Statistics South Africa
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DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org |
DDI_ZAF_2017_MD_v01_M
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2020-08-05
Version 01: This metadata was downloaded from DataFirst microdata repository website. The following two metadata information have been edited – Document and Survey ID.
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