General Household Survey 2018
South Africa, 2018
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Marital status (Q12aMARST)
Data file: ghs-2019-person-1.0-stata11
Overview
Valid:
71137
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
47
End:
47
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legally married | 13410 |
18.9%
|
| 2 | Living together like husband and wife/partners | 5035 |
7.1%
|
| 3 | Divorced | 969 |
1.4%
|
| 4 | Separated, but still legally married | 420 |
0.6%
|
| 5 | Widowed | 3629 |
5.1%
|
| 6 | Single, but have lived together with someone as husband/wife before | 744 |
1%
|
| 7 | Single and have never been married/never lived together as husband/wife before | 46811 |
65.8%
|
| 9 | Unspecified | 119 |
0.2%
|
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.