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Mortality and Causes of Death 2015

South Africa, 2015
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
Statistics South Africa, South Africa. Department of Home Affairs
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Identification

IDNO
ZAF_2015_MCD_v01_M
Title
Mortality and Causes of Death 2015
Countries
Name Code
South Africa ZAF
Study notes
This dataset contains statistics on deaths in South Africa in 2015. The registration of deaths in South Africa is regulated by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 51 of 1992. The South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is responsible for the registration of deaths in South Africa. The data is collected with two instruments: The death register (DHA-1663A) and the medical certificate in respect of death (DHS-1663B).The staff of the DHA Registrar of Deaths section fills in the former while the medical practitioner attending to the death completes the latter. Causes of death are coded by the Department of Home Affairs according to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) ICD-10, as required by the World Health Organisation for their member countries. The data is used by the Department of Home Affairs to update the Population Register. The forms are sent to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) for their use for statistical purposes. From the two forms sent to Stats SA, the following data items of the deceased are extracted: place of residence, place of death, date of death, month and year of registration, sex, marital status, occupation, underlying cause of death, whether or not the death was certified by a medical practitioner, and whether or not the deceased died in a health institution or nursing home. From 1991 death notifications do not require data on population group, and therefore this dataset includes death data for all population groups. This dataset excludes 2014 deaths that were not registered, and late registrations which would not have been available to Stats SA in time for the production of the dataset.
Kind of data
Administrative records data [adm]

Version

Version
v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
Version date
2017
Version notes
This version (Version 1) of the dataset was downloaded from Statistics South Africa's website on the 1st of June 2017.

Scope

Topics
Topic Vocab metadata.study_desc.study_info.topics.uri
morbidity and mortality [14.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
Keywords
metadata.study_desc.study_info.keywords.keyword
Deaths
Mortality

Coverage

Geographic coverage
National coverage
Geographic unit
Geographic breakdown of the data is by province and magisterial district, as well as urban, non-urban area.
Unit of analysis
Individuals
Universe
The data covers all deaths that occurred in 2015 which were registered at the Department of Home Affairs.

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity
Name
Statistics South Africa
South Africa. Department of Home Affairs

Data Collection

Dates of collection
Start End
2015-01 2015-12
Mode of data collection
Other [oth]
Questionnaires
The data is collected with two instruments: The death register (Department of Home Affairs form DHA-1663A) and and the medical certificate in respect of death (DHA-1663B).

Data access

Access authorities
Name Affiliation Email URI
DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org http://support.data1st.org
Access conditions
Public use data, available to all
Citation requirements
Statistics South Africa. Mortality and Causes of Death 2015 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017.

Contacts

Contact(s)
Name Affiliation Email URI
DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org http://support.data1st.org

Metadata production

IDNo
DDI_ZAF_2015_MCD_v01_M
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Producer
Production date
2017-06-01
Version
Version 1.1 (June 2018)
Identical to DataFirst Version 1 (zaf-statssa-mcd-2015-v1), except for DDI and ID fields that were edited.