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Mortality and Causes of Death 2009

South Africa, 2009
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ZAF_2009_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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Injury codes for the immediate cause of death (InjuryA)

Data file: MCDDN 2009_v1

Overview

Valid: 586026
Invalid: -
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 111
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 69
End: 71
Width: 3
Range: 1 - 111
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Injuries to the head 8902
1.5%
2 Injuries to the neck, cervial spine/cord, trachea, vocal cord, keel, larynx, carotide 1384
0.2%
3 Injuries to the thorax, breast, chest, heart, rib, lung, aorta 5008
0.9%
4 Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis, biuk (ventricle), kidney, stomach, colon, rug, rectum, buttock, liver, milt spleen, biuk, peritoneum 1164
0.2%
5 Injuries to shoulder and upper arm 61
0%
6 Injuries to elbow and forearm 17
0%
7 Injuries to wrist and hand 14
0%
8 Injuries to hip and thigh 328
0.1%
9 Injuries to knee and lower leg 71
0%
10 Injuries to ankle and foot 6
0%
11 Injuries involving multiple body regions 10444
1.8%
12 Injuries to unspecified parts of trunk, limb or body region 8881
1.5%
13 Effects of foreign body entering throug natural orifice 571
0.1%
14 Burns and corrosions 1956
0.3%
15 Frostbite 0
0%
16 Poisoning by drugs, medicaments and biological substances 461
0.1%
17 Toxic effect of substances chiefly nonmedical as to source bysteek food 1172
0.2%
18 Other and unspecified effexts of external causes 6071
1%
19 Certain early complications of trauma 10
0%
20 Complications of surgical and medical care, nec 269
0%
21 Sequelae of injuries, of poisoning and of other consequences of external causes 11
0%
111 Natural cause (no injury code) 539225
92%
888 Second condition leading to death not mentioned 0
0%
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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