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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Ascertainment of the cause of death (Ascertainment)

Data file: MCDDN 2009_v1

Overview

Valid: 586026

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Autopsy	49438	8.4%
2	Opinion of attending medical practitioner	195343	33.3%
3	Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty	102224	17.4%
4	Opinion of registered professional nurse	13572	2.3%
5	Interview of family member	85703	14.6%
6	Other	12800	2.2%
8	Unknown	2277	0.4%
9	Unspecified	124669	21.3%

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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