Mortality and Causes of Death 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_MCD_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa, South Africa. Department of Home Affairs

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Sep 19, 2018

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Ascertainment of the cause of death (Ascertainment)

Data file: mcd-2015

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Valid: 473938

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 142

End: 146

Width: 5

Range: -

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Categories

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

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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