Mortality and Causes of Death 1997-2020

South Africa, 1997 - 2020

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zaf-statssa-mcd-1997-2020-v1

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Statistics South Africa, Department of Home Affairs

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Civil Registration Data

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Oct 02, 2020

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Data file: mcd-1997-2020-deceased-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Black African	157	15.7%
2	White	13	1.3%
3	Indian or Asian	3	0.3%
4	Coloured	9	0.9%
5	Other	0	0%
8	Unknown	63	6.3%
9	Unspecified	755	75.5%

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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