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

South Africa, 2000 - 2024

Reference ID

AHRI.VerbalAutopsy.Harmonisation

Producer(s)

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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Created on

Mar 31, 2026

Last modified

May 29, 2026

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Was participation refused ? (VARefused)

Data file: AHRI.HDSS.DEATHS-Cause-of-death-2000-2024.v2

Overview

Valid: 8618

Invalid: 19108

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 12

Range: 1 - 999

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	335	3.9%
2	No	8283	96.1%
997	Not Applicable	0	0%
999	Missing	0	0%
Sysmiss		19108

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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