Population Census 1980

South Africa, 1980

Get Microdata

Reference ID

ZAF_1980_PHC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Mar 24, 2013

Last modified

Mar 29, 2019

Page views

18934

Downloads

3080

Marital status (MARITAL)

Data file: South African Census 1980_v1

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

See instruction 2b…

Literal question

5. Marital status: State whether never married, married, widowed, divorced or living together.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Never married
2	Married
3	Living together
4	Widow/Widower
5	Divorced

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.

Interviewer instructions

2 (b) QUESTION 5. – If two persons are living together as husband and wife without being lawfully married write “living together”.

Question post text

See instruction 2b…

Description

Definition

This variable records the marrital status of the household member.

Universe

Answer this part in respect of every person at midnight between 6 and 7 May 1980. (Only one person per column.)

Back to Catalog