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

South Africa, 2000 - 2025

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

Apr 01, 2026

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Interview modality (face-to-face in the field or telephonic) (VAInterviewType)

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

Overview

Valid: 27431

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 12

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Field Interview	23050	84%
2	Telephonic Interview	4381	16%

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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