Mortality and Causes of Death 1997-2019

South Africa, 1997 - 2019

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zaf-statssa-mcd-1997-2019-v1

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Statistics South Africa, Department of Home Affairs

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Ascertainment of the cause of death (Ascertainment)

Data file: mcd-1997-2019-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Autopsy	0	0%
2	Post mortem examination	0	0%
3	Opinion of attending medical practitioner	0	0%
4	Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty	0	0%
5	Opinion of registered professional nurse	0	0%
6	Interview of family member	0	0%
7	Other	0	0%
8	Autopsy results may be available later	0	0%
9	Autopsy not performed	1000	100%
98	Unknown	0	0%
99	Unspecified	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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