Login
Login

  • DataFirst Home
  • Open Data Portal
  • Collections
  • Citations
  • Contact us
    Home / Data Portal / STATSSA / ZAF-STATSSA-RD-1996-V1
StatsSA

Recorded Deaths 1996

South Africa, 1996
Get Microdata
Reference ID
zaf-statssa-rd-1996-v1
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collections
Statistics South Africa
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Apr 07, 2014
Last modified
Jun 25, 2020
Page views
11041
Downloads
1688
  • Study Description
  • Data Description
  • Downloads
  • Get Microdata
  • Related Publications
  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
zaf-statssa-rd-1996-v1
Title
Recorded Deaths 1996
Country
Name Country code
South Africa zaf
Study type
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Abstract
This dataset contains statistics on deaths in South Africa in 1996. The registration of deaths in South Africa is regulated by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 51 of 1992. The South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is responsible for the registration of deaths in South Africa. The data is collected with two instruments: The death register and the medical certificate in respect of death.The staff of the DHA Registrar of Deaths section fills in the former while the medical practitioner attending to the death completes the latter. Causes of death are coded by the Department of Home Affairs according to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) ICD-10, as required by the World Health Organisation for their member countries. The data is used by the Department of Home Affairs to update the Population Register. The forms are sent to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) for their use for statistical purposes. From the two forms sent to Stats SA, the following data items of the deceased are extracted: place of residence, place of death, date of death, month and year of registration, sex, marital status, occupation, underlying cause of death, whether or not the death was certified by a medical practitioner, and whether or not the deceased died in a health institution or nursing home. From 1991 death notifications did not require data on population group, and therefore this dataset includes death data for all population groups.
Kind of Data
Administrative records
Unit of Analysis
Individuals

Version

Version Description
v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution
Version Date
2000

Scope

Notes
The data covers causes of death in South Africa in 1996
Keywords
Keyword
mortality
morbitity

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
The survey has national coverage
Geographic Unit
The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province.
Universe
The data covers the death records of all South Africans

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Statistics South Africa

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1996 1996
Data Collection Mode
Other [oth]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link
Access conditions
Public use files, available to all
Citation requirements
Statistics South Africa. Recorded Deaths 1996 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2000. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/5439-t435
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link

Disclaimer and copyrights

Copyright
Copyright, Statistics South Africa

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
ddi-zaf-ssa-rd-1996-v2
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
Date of Metadata Production
2020-06-24
DDI Document version
Version 4
Back to Catalog
DataFirst

© DataFirst, All Rights Reserved.