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Mortality and Causes of Death 2021-2022

South Africa, 2021 - 2022
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zaf-statssa-mcd-2021-2022-v1
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Nov 13, 2025
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Smoking status of deceased (Smoker)

Data file: mcd-2021-deceased

Overview

Valid: 674761
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_start_pos: 27
loc_end_pos: 27
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Yes 100959
15%
2 No 262063
38.8%
3 Do not know 39318
5.8%
4 Not applicable 55240
8.2%
9 Unspecified 217181
32.2%
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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