ZAF_2019_MD_v01_M
Marriages and Divorces 2019
Name | Country code |
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South Africa | ZAF |
Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth]
Statistics South Africa. Marriages and Divorces 2019 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2021. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/ez31-k904
Administrative records data [adm]
Individuals
Version 01: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
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 2019 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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2019-01-01 | 2019-12-31 |
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 |
CC-BY attribution-only license
Statistics South Africa. Marriages and Divorces 2019 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2021. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/ez31-k904
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DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org |
DDI_ZAF_2019_MD_v01_M
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Metadata adapted for Microdata Library |
2021-04-13
Version 01: This metadata was downloaded from DataFirst website(https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/central). The following two metadata information has been edited – Document and Survey ID.
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