Mortality and Causes of Death from Death Notification 1997-2005 DDI_ZAF_2012_MCD_v01_M DataFirst 2021-01-14 Metadata Editor Version 01: This metadata was downloaded from DataFirst Open Data Portal (https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/central). The following two metadata information have been edited – Document and Survey ID. ZAF_2012_MCD_v01_M Mortality and Causes of Death 2012 MCD 2012 Statistics South Africa Department of Home Affairs Copyright, Statistics South Africa Metadata Editor DataFirst Helpdesk Administrative Records, Health (ad/hea] Statistics South Africa. Mortality and Causes of Death 2012 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2014. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/q04j-bw82 Version 01: Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution. Version 1 of the dataset was downloaded from Statistics South Africa's website on the 8th of May 2015. Morbidity Mortality This dataset contains statistics on deaths in South Africa in 2012. The registration of deaths in South Africa is regulated by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 51 of 1992. The South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is responsible for the registration of deaths in South Africa. The data is collected with two instruments: The death register and the medical certificate in respect of death. The staff of the DHA Registrar of Deaths section fills in the former while the medical practitioner attending to the death completes the latter. Causes of death are coded by the Department of Home Affairs according to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) ICD-10, as required by the World Health Organization for their member countries. The data is used by the Department of Home Affairs to update the Population Register. The forms are sent to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) for their use for statistical purposes. From the two forms sent to Stats SA, the following data items of the deceased are extracted: place of residence, place of death, date of death, month and year of registration, sex, marital status, occupation, underlying cause of death, whether or not the death was certified by a medical practitioner, and whether or not the deceased died in a health institution or nursing home. From 1991 death notifications do not require data on population group, and therefore this dataset includes death data for all population groups. This dataset excludes 2012 deaths that were not registered, and late registrations which would not have been available to Stats SA in time for the production of the dataset. South Africa National coverage The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province. Individuals The data covers all deaths that occurred in 2012 and registered at the Department of Home Affairs in South Africa. Administrative records data [adm] The study provides data on cause of death for deaths that occurred in South Africa in 2012 and were registered by the Department of Home Affairs. Other data collected on the deceased includes age, education, marital status, and place of birth and death. Other [oth] The data is collected with two instruments: the death register and the medical certificate in respect of death. DataFirst Statistics South Africa. Mortality and Causes of Death 2012 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2014. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/q04j-bw82 Public use files, available to all mcd_2012_v1_20150508.NSDstat 0 47 Nesstar 200801 2012 Mortality and Causes of Death data. Unique sequence number 494877 20120000001 20120504000 Type of death 494877 1 2 1 Individual death 480476 2 Stillbirth 14401 Year of death 494877 2012 2012 2012 494877 Month of death 494877 1 12 1 January 40926 2 February 37942 3 March 39471 4 April 39955 5 May 41529 6 June 44068 7 July 46857 8 August 46689 9 September 40036 10 October 39136 11 November 37938 12 December 40330 Day of death 494877 1 31 1 16757 2 16733 3 16941 4 16913 5 16569 6 16555 7 16322 8 16634 9 16548 10 16744 11 15999 12 17775 13 16190 14 15802 15 16134 16 16185 17 16157 18 15752 19 15846 20 16093 21 16005 22 15974 23 15854 24 15679 25 15957 26 15421 27 15772 28 15454 29 15934 30 15033 31 9145 Year of birth 494877 1890 9999 Month of birth 494877 1 99 1 January 49081 2 February 38899 3 March 44647 4 April 41261 5 May 39542 6 June 46518 7 July 38463 8 August 39523 9 September 39792 10 October 38725 11 November 35293 12 December 39935 99 Unspecified 3198 Day of birth 494877 1 99 1 26284 2 19294 3 18692 4 18472 5 18493 6 18583 7 16644 8 15755 9 14916 10 22024 11 16154 12 19636 13 14036 14 15189 15 18377 16 17194 17 14391 18 13989 19 12975 20 16329 21 13353 22 13556 23 13955 24 14523 25 16729 26 13921 27 13825 28 15124 29 11804 30 11182 31 6280 99 Unspecified 3198 Age in completed years 494877 0 999 999 Unspecified 2772 Year of death registration 494877 2012 2014 2012 488075 2013 6786 2014 16 Month of death registration 494877 1 12 1 January 41227 2 February 37637 3 March 38110 4 April 39276 5 May 42556 6 June 42160 7 July 48301 8 August 47667 9 September 38515 10 October 42075 11 November 38217 12 December 39136 Day of death registration 494877 1 31 1 10784 2 18192 3 18624 4 15796 5 16931 6 17841 7 14964 8 13289 9 14546 10 22140 11 15584 12 17731 13 19221 14 14703 15 12958 16 18166 17 14859 18 17330 19 17524 20 18589 21 13342 22 13517 23 18360 24 14173 25 15133 26 15281 27 19325 28 15220 29 12877 30 17364 31 10513 Sex of deceased 494877 1 9 1 Male 257509 2 Female 234504 9 Unspecified 2864 Marital status of deceased 494877 1 9 1 Never married 234816 2 Married 112495 3 Widowed 45971 4 Divorced 8607 5 Not applicable 14401 8 Unknown 894 9 Unspecified 77693 Relationship of informant to deceased 494877 1 9 1 Parent 89811 2 Spouse 36575 3 Child 82026 4 Other kin 27948 5 Other 183535 8 Unknown 840 9 Unspecified 74142 Next of kin a smoker 494877 1 9 1 Smoking 12505 2 Not smoking 51744 3 Refused to answer 1570 8 Unknown 105 9 Unspecified 428953 Education of deceased 494877 0 99 0 None 76344 1 Grade R 2359 2 Sub A Gr1 3707 3 Sub B Gr2 5433 4 Std 1 Gr3 7547 5 Std 2 Gr4 11949 6 Std 3 Gr5 10996 7 Std 4 Gr6 13434 8 Std 5 Gr7 17111 9 Std 6 Gr8 21458 10 Std 7 Gr9 11790 11 Std 8 Gr10 Form3 NTC1 21219 12 Std 9 Gr11 Form4 NTC2 13038 13 Std 10 Gr12 Form5 NTC3 36128 14 University/Tech 8587 97 Unknown 16039 98 Not applicable 14401 99 Unspecified 203337 Occupation of deceased 494877 8 99 8 Occupations unspecified not elsewhere classified 313787 9 Not economically active persons 57506 11 Chief executives, senior officials and legislators 390 12 Administrative and commercial managers 305 13 Production and specialised services managers 315 14 Hospitality, retail and other services managers 1006 21 Science and engineering professionals 758 22 Health professionals 1447 23 Teaching professionals 2718 24 Business and administration professionals 1776 25 Information and Communication Technology professionals 65 26 Legal, social and cultural professionals 541 31 Science and engineering associate professionals 720 32 Health associate professionals 281 33 Business and administration associate professionals 897 34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals 383 35 Information and communications technicians 84 41 General and keyboard clerks 2081 42 Customer services clerks 435 43 Numerical and material recording clerks 168 44 Other clerical support workers 75 51 Personal services workers 1345 52 Sales workers 1870 53 Personal care workers 234 54 Protective service workers and armed forces occupations 3892 61 Market-orientated skilled agricultural workers 483 62 Market-orientated skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers 2006 63 Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers 905 71 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians 2839 72 Metal, machinery and related trades workers 2151 73 Handicraft and printing workers 212 74 Electrical and electronic trades workers 838 75 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers 619 81 Stationary plant and machine operators 3364 82 Assemblers 21 83 Drivers and mobile plant operators 4581 91 Cleaners and helpers 9282 92 Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers 1854 93 Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport 1381 94 Food preparation assistants 24 95 Street and related sales and service workers 151 96 Refuse workers and other elementary workers 10954 98 Not applicable 60124 99 Underground economy and related activities 9 Groups of occupation of deceased 494877 0 99 0 Armed forces, occupations unspecified and not elsewhere classified, and not economically active persons 371293 1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 2016 2 Professionals 7305 3 Technicians and associate professionals 2365 4 Clerks 2759 5 Service workers, shop and market sales workers 7341 6 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 3394 7 Craft and related trade workers 6659 8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 7966 9 Elementary occupations 23655 99 Not applicable 60124 Industry of deceased 494877 10 998 Smoking status of deceased 494877 1 9 1 Yes 74160 2 No 167317 3 Do not know 79811 4 Not applicable 5163 8 Unknown 284 9 Unspecified 168142 Pregnant status of deceased 494877 1 9 1 Yes 1305 2 No 21870 3 Not applicable 393585 8 Unknown 1177 9 Unspecified 76940 Citizenship of deceased 494877 1 99 1 South Africa 473210 2 Zimbabwe 3731 3 Swaziland 313 4 Botswana 132 5 Lesotho 1250 6 Mozambique 1913 7 Namibia 37 8 Mauritius 10 9 Angola 67 10 Zambia 67 11 Malawi 474 12 Tanzania 40 13 Madagascar 5 14 DRC 96 15 Other 1686 97 Unknown 482 99 Unspecified 11364 Province of birth of the deceased 494877 1 99 1 Western Cape 27147 2 Eastern Cape 69541 3 Northern Cape 13591 4 Free State 34389 5 KwaZulu-Natal 85283 6 North West 31871 7 Gauteng 50675 8 Mpumalanga 33978 9 Limpopo 49939 97 Unknown 17688 98 Outside South Africa 14245 99 Unspecified 66530 Province of death occurrence 494877 1 99 1 Western Cape 47609 2 Eastern Cape 66200 3 Northern Cape 14379 4 Free State 36219 5 KwaZulu-Natal 100185 6 North West 37030 7 Gauteng 102011 8 Mpumalanga 37401 9 Limpopo 50397 97 Unknown 2251 98 Outside South Africa 700 99 Unspecified 495 Province of usual residence of the deceased 494877 1 99 1 Western Cape 45469 2 Eastern Cape 64362 3 Northern Cape 14133 4 Free State 35518 5 KwaZulu-Natal 98406 6 North West 36238 7 Gauteng 96872 8 Mpumalanga 38378 9 Limpopo 48491 97 1060 98 Outside South Africa 1131 99 Unspecified 14819 Country of usual residence of deceased 494877 1 99 1 South Africa 479731 2 Zimbabwe 88 3 Swaziland 16 4 Botswana 6 5 Lesotho 65 6 Mozambique 44 7 Namibia 6 8 Mauritius 1 9 Angola 10 10 Zambia 1 11 Malawi 5 12 Tanzania 1 13 Madagascar 0 14 DRC 1 15 Other 38 97 Unknown 97 99 Unspecified 14767 Ascertainment of the cause of death 494877 1 99 1 Autopsy 41860 2 Post mortem examination 103390 3 Opinion of attending medical practitioner 101452 4 Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty 22027 5 Opinion of registered professional nurse 51533 6 Interview of family member 19890 7 Other 7195 8 Autopsy results may be available later 166 9 Autopsy not performed 3903 98 Unknown 4089 99 Unspecified 139372 Place of death 494877 1 9 1 Hospital 214763 2 Emergency room/Outpatient 8229 3 Dead on arrival 9446 4 Nursing home 9747 5 Home 120053 6 Other 13774 8 Unknown 695 9 Unspecified 118170 Immediate cause of death 494877 Injury codes for the immediate cause of death 494877 Second condition leading to death 494877 Injury codes for the second condition leading to death 494877 Third condition leading to death 494877 Injury codes for the third condition leading to death 494877 Fourth condition leading to death 494877 Injury codes for the fourth condition leading to death 494877 Other conditions leading to death 494877 Injury codes for other conditions leading to death 494877 111 4856 888 489818 S06 1 S09 4 S12 2 S27 1 S32 1 S72 15 S82 2 T06 1 T09 1 T14 3 T17 4 T24 1 T30 3 T36 1 T37 34 T39 1 T40 1 T45 11 T49 1 T50 2 T59 1 T62 6 T65 11 T74 3 T78 1 T81 38 T82 13 T84 4 T85 3 T86 2 T87 21 T88 6 T90 1 T98 3 First cause provided on part 2 of the death notification form 494877 Injury codes for first cause on part 2 494877 111 1063 888 493796 S09 1 S42 1 S72 6 T02 1 T37 1 T45 1 T81 5 T87 1 T88 1 Second cause provided on part 2 of the death notification form 494877 888 494859 B24 1 B37 1 C22 1 D84 2 E14 2 E78 1 F03 1 I10 3 I20 1 J44 1 K81 1 M06 1 N19 1 Y83 1 Injury codes for second cause on part 2 494877 111 17 888 494859 T81 1 Underlying cause of death 494877 Broad groups of the underlying causes of death 494877 Main groups of the underlying causes of death 494877 8888888 14401 A00-B99 106752 C00-D48 37467 D50-D89 14140 E00-E90 27834 F00-F99 1755 G00-G99 11914 H00-H59 40 H60-H95 57 I00-I99 78817 J00-J99 52203 K00-K93 12478 L00-L99 1160 M00-M99 1613 N00-N99 8381 O00-O99 1018 P00-P96 10213 Q00-Q99 2038 R00-R99 65376 V01-Y98 47220 Natural/non-natural underlying causes of death 494877 1 8 1 Natural underlying cause 433256 2 Non-natural underlying cause 47220 8 Stillbirth 14401