AHRI:Health and Demographic Surveillance System: Deaths and Causes of Death from Verbal Autopsies (2000-2024)

South Africa, 2000 - 2025

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AHRI.VerbalAutopsy.Harmonisation

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Ariane Sessego, Siyabonga Nxumalo, Dickman Gareta, Dr. Alison Castle, Dr. Guy Harling, Prof. Mark Siedner, Prof. Janet Seeley, Prof. Collins Iwuji, Prof. Willem Hanekom, Dr. Kobus Herbst

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Mar 31, 2026

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Apr 01, 2026

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Verbal autopsy questionnaire used for data collection (dates are indicative) (Questionnaire)

Data file: AHRI.HDSS.DEATHS-Cause-of-death-2000-2024.v1

Overview

Valid: 27431

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 12

Range: 1 - 997

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	AHRI Form (2000-2016)	1204	4.4%
2	WHO 2016 standard (2017-2021)	5041	18.4%
3	WHO 2022 standard (2022-2024)	2668	9.7%
4	AHRI Form & Checklist1(CL1)(2000-2009)	12121	44.2%
5	AHRI Form & Checklist2(CL2)(2010-2016)	4308	15.7%
6	AHRI Form, CL1 & CL2 (2010)	826	3%
997	Not Applicable	1263	4.6%

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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