Mortality and Causes of Death 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_MCD_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa, South Africa. Department of Home Affairs

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jun 12, 2018

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Ascertainment of the cause of death (Ascertainment)

Data file: mcd-2015

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Valid: 473938

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 142

End: 146

Width: 5

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Autopsy	42974	9.1%
2	Post mortem examination	111754	23.6%
3	Opinion of attending medical practitioner	79998	16.9%
4	Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty	10192	2.2%
5	Opinion of registered professional nurse	52298	11%
6	Interview of family member	8796	1.9%
7	Other	6118	1.3%
8	Autopsy results may be available later	167	0%
9	Autopsy not performed	4127	0.9%
98	Unknown	2535	0.5%
99	Unspecified	154979	32.7%

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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