Mortality and Causes of Death 1997-2017
South Africa, 1997 - 2017
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Ascertainment of the cause of death (Ascertainment)
Data file: mcd-1997-2017-v1
Overview
Valid:
10780692
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autopsy | 917545 |
8.5%
|
| 2 | Post mortem examination | 2785268 |
25.8%
|
| 3 | Opinion of attending medical practitioner | 1695036 |
15.7%
|
| 4 | Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty | 360687 |
3.3%
|
| 5 | Opinion of registered professional nurse | 1285268 |
11.9%
|
| 6 | Interview of family member | 296867 |
2.8%
|
| 7 | Other | 57630 |
0.5%
|
| 8 | Autopsy results may be available later | 195432 |
1.8%
|
| 9 | Autopsy not performed | 1956076 |
18.1%
|
| 98 | Unknown | 22997 |
0.2%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 1207886 |
11.2%
|
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.