Mortality and Causes of Death 2008

South Africa, 2008

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ZAF_2008_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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Usual occupation of deceased (occupation)

Data file: CausesOfDeath2008_F1.dta

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Valid: 606699

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 13

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 33

End: 34

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 13

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	3770	0.6%
2	Professionals	5949	1%
3	Technicians and associate professionals	2432	0.4%
4	Clerks	4071	0.7%
5	Service workers; shop and market sales workers	7938	1.3%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	1842	0.3%
7	Craft and related trade workers	9871	1.6%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	7836	1.3%
9	Elementary occupations	33389	5.5%
10	Armed forces	401	0.1%
11	Occupations unspecified	420206	69.3%
12	Occupations not elsewhere classified	10219	1.7%
13	Not economically active	98775	16.3%

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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