Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025
South Africa, 2024 - 2025
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Feb 23, 2026
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Feb 23, 2026
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- household-2024-2025-v1
- individual-2024-2025-v1
Marital status of the persons in the household (Maritalstatus)
Data file: household-2024-2025-v1
Overview
Valid:
20788
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
7
Type:
Discrete
Width:
16
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Married | 6334 |
30.5%
|
| 2 | Living together like husband and wife | 2137 |
10.3%
|
| 3 | Divorced | 750 |
3.6%
|
| 4 | Separated, but still legally married | 283 |
1.4%
|
| 5 | Widowed | 3351 |
16.1%
|
| 6 | Single, but have been living together with someone as husband/wife before | 773 |
3.7%
|
| 7 | Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before | 7160 |
34.4%
|
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.