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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Where did the deceased die? (DeathSetting)

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

Overview

Valid: 25082

Invalid: 2349

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 12

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Home	11190	44.6%
2	Hospital	10840	43.2%
3	Other Health facility	844	3.4%
4	Other	2009	8%
5	On route to hospital or facility (only from 2017 on)	199	0.8%
Sysmiss		2349

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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