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Statistical release P0309.3 Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2006: Findings from death notification Embargoed until: 23 October 2008 10:00 Enquiries: Forthcoming issue: Expected release date User Information Services 2007 June 2009 (012) 310 8600 Statistics South Africa i P0309.3 Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2006: Findings from death notification Published by Statistics South Africa, Private Bag X44, Pretoria 0001 © Statistics South Africa, 2008 Data from this publication may be produced, applied or processed, provided Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is acknowledged as the original source of the data; that it is specified that the application and/or analysis is the result of the users independent processing of the data; and that neither the basic data nor any processed version or application thereof may be sold or offered for sale in any form whatsoever without the prior permission of Stats SA. 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Electronic services A large range of data is available via on-line services, diskette and computer printouts. For more details about our electronic data, contact user information services. Enquiries Telephone: (012) 310 8600/ 8390/ 8351/ 4892/ 8496/ 8095 (User information services) (012) 377 9447 (Technical enquiries) (012) 310 8161 (Orders) (012) 310 8490 (Library) Fax: (012) 310 8500/ 8495 (User information services) Email: [email protected] (User information services) [email protected] (Orders) Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2006: Findings from death notification Statistics South Africa ii P0309.3 Preface This statistical release presents data on mortality and causes of death based on all death notification forms received from the Department of Home Affairs for deaths that occurred in 2006. Reference is also made to the 1997–2005 data to provide information on trends in mortality, based on updated information that includes late registrations processed in 2007/8. As with previous releases, this release employed strict ICD-10 coding procedures, based on a principle of ‘what you see is what you code’. An automated procedure was used to determine the underlying cause of death. Pali Lehohla Statistician-General Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2006: Findings from death notification Statistics South Africa iii P0309.3 Contents Preface ...................................................................................................................................................................ii List of tables ..........................................................................................................................................................v List of figures........................................................................................................................................................vi Acknowledgements.............................................................................................................................................vii 1. Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................................1 1.2 Aims and objectives of this statistical release............................................................................................1 1.3 Scope and limitations of this statistical release..........................................................................................1 1.4 Organisation and presentation of this release ...........................................................................................2 2. Data and methods ....................................................................................................................................3 2.1 Data ......................................................................................................................................................3 2.2 Methods......................................................................................................................................................5 3. Overall levels, patterns and differentials of mortality ........................................................................10 3.1 The levels and trends of registered deaths..............................................................................................10 3.2 Age differentials........................................................................................................................................11 3.3 Sex differentials........................................................................................................................................12 3.4 Age and sex differentials..........................................................................................................................13 3.5 Population group differences in mortality.................................................................................................16 3.6 Marital status differences in mortality.......................................................................................................16 3.7 Differences in mortality by place of death ................................................................................................16 3.8 Provincial differences in mortality.............................................................................................................17 4. Causes of death in South Africa...........................................................................................................18 4.1 Introduction...............................................................................................................................................18 4.2 Reported causes of death ........................................................................................................................18 4.3 Overview of the underlying causes of death ............................................................................................19 4.4 Natural and non–natural causes of death ................................................................................................20 4.5 Underlying natural causes of death..........................................................................................................22 4.6 Non-natural causes of death ....................................................................................................................30 4.7 Comparison between underlying, immediate and contributing causes of death .....................................36 5. Concluding remarks ..............................................................................................................................38 References ...........................................................................................................................................................39 Appendices ..........................................................................................................................................................40 Appendix A: Definitions....................................................................................................................................40 Appendix B: Death notification form introduced in 1998 .................................................................................41 Appendix C: Number of deaths by age and sex, 1997–1999..........................................................................43 Appendix C.1: Number of deaths by age and sex, 2000–2002..........................................................................44 Appendix C.2: Number of deaths by age and sex, 2003–2005..........................................................................45 Appendix D: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by sex, 2006...........................................................................46 Appendix E: All underlying causes of death, 2006 ..........................................................................................47 Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2006: Findings from death notification Statistics South Africa iv P0309.3 Appendix F: Detailed description of the broad groups of natural causes of death which were among the ten leading causes in 2006 .......................................................................................51 Appendix G: Number and percentage of neonatal and post–neonatal