AHRI.Marital Statuses Dataset

South Africa, 2000 - 2023

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Reference ID

AHRI.MaritalStatuses

Producer(s)

Dr. Kobus Herbst, Dr. Guy Harling, Dr. Mark Siedner, Prof Willem Hanekom

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HDSS 2023 Release

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Feb 19, 2026

Last modified

Feb 19, 2026

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Marital Status (MaritalStatus)

Data file: MaritalStatuses

Overview

Valid: 3909143

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 19

Range: 0 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Missing/Refused	0	0%
1	Never married	3060355	78.3%
2	Married	477765	12.2%
3	Polygamous Marriage	126693	3.2%
4	Divorced/Separated	16938	0.4%
5	Widowed	227392	5.8%

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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