General Household Survey 2020

South Africa, 2020

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Reference ID

ZAF_2020_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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Jun 23, 2022

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Marital status (hhc_marital)

Data file: ghs-2020-person-v1

Overview

Valid: 34370

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 7

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 42

End: 42

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legally married	6018	17.5%
2	Living together like husband and wife/partners	1886	5.5%
3	Divorced	363	1.1%
4	Separated, but still legally married	186	0.5%
5	Widowed	1913	5.6%
6	Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before	485	1.4%
7	Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before	23519	68.4%

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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