Chronic Respiratory Disease Mortality by Occupation in South Africa, 2013-2019

From 2013 to 2019, this dataset contains 2,373,703 registered deaths in South Africa, with 79,840 (3.4%) identified as due to chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs). The study by Asanda Mkulisi uses ICD-10 codes and multivariable logistic regression to analyze the association between occupation and CRD mortality, providing adjusted odds ratios for various occupational groups.

Use Cases

• Analyzing occupational risk disparities for chronic respiratory diseases based on adjusted odds ratios for different job categories.
• Studying demographic patterns in CRD mortality based on variables like age group, sex, education level, and population group.
• Modeling the association between specific occupations and leading causes like COPD (J44) and asthma (J45) using the provided statistical methods.
• Investigating temporal and provincial trends in occupational mortality from 2013 to 2019 across South Africa.

Strengths

• Contains 2,373,703 death records over a 7-year period (2013-2019), providing substantial temporal coverage.
• Includes 79,840 identified CRD deaths with detailed breakdowns by specific ICD-10 codes (e.g., COPD accounted for 40,180 deaths).
• Analysis controls for multiple potential confounders including age, sex, education, marital status, smoking, province, population group, and year of death.
• Model performance was assessed using statistical tests (Hosmer-Lemeshow, AUC, classification accuracy).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to deaths with a known occupation and certified cause, which may introduce selection bias.

Provenance

Source

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

Collection Method

Analytical cross-sectional study using secondary national mortality data.

Time Range

2013 to 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 14:32:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Africa (all nine provinces)