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World Mortality Dataset: international data on all-cause mortality.
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South Africa year=0, for period before 2020 and 2021 #8

Closed Rob1to closed 3 years ago

Rob1to commented 3 years ago

South Africa year equals zero, just before 2020 and 2021 values.

There is uncertainty whether this value 0 corresponds to 2019 or to another year before 2019.

Thanks for collecting and making available excess death data.

dkobak commented 3 years ago

See README:

SAMRC does not publish weekly data for years before 2020. Instead, the 2018--2019 data were used by SAMRC to forecast expected weekly mortality using the Excel Holt-Winters time series forecasting method in Excel function. We denote this forecast as year = 0 in the data.