General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Statistics South Africa

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Cause of death (Q97Dcause)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 397

End: 397

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What caused the death of the deceased?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Unnatural	88	0.4%
2	Natural	549	2.5%
8	Not Applicable	20881	96.7%
9	Unspecified	83	0.4%

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.

Interviewer instructions

This question seeks to establish whether household members that passed away during the 12 months before the survey died of natural or unnatural causes.

Description

Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units.

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