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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Method of ascertaining the cause of death (ascertainment)

Data file: CausesOfDeath2008_F1.dta

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Valid: 606699

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 72

End: 72

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Autopsy	51026	8.4%
2	Opinion of attending medical practitioner	203963	33.6%
3	Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty	105071	17.3%
4	Opinion of registered professional nurse	13118	2.2%
5	Interview of family member	91987	15.2%
6	Other	13971	2.3%
8	Unknown	611	0.1%
9	Unspecified	126952	20.9%

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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