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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Relationship of informant to deceased (mstatus)

Data file: CausesOfDeath2008_F1.dta

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Valid: 606699

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 23

End: 23

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Single	303797	50.1%
2	Civil marriage	74154	12.2%
3	Living as married	19518	3.2%
4	Widowed	47554	7.8%
5	Religious law marriage	12365	2%
6	Divorced	8850	1.5%
7	Customary marriage	37067	6.1%
8	Unknown	1340	0.2%
9	Unspecified	102054	16.8%

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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