In this special case, we might let
- 0 means alive
- 1 means Ischaemic heart disease (12.6%)
- 2 means Cerebrovascular disease (9.7%)
- 3 means Lower respiratory infections (6.8%)
- 4 means HIV/AIDS (4.9%)
- 5 means Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (4.8%)
- 6 means Diarrhoeal diseases (3.2%)
- 7 means Tuberculosis (2.7%)
- 8 means Trachea/bronchus/lung cancers (2.2%)
- 9 means Malaria (2.2%)
- 10 means Road traffic accidents (2.1%)
- 11 means Death to other causes
To give you a sense of their relative importance, the numbers in the parens ((cdot)) represent the percentage of deaths according to the World Health Organization in 2002. (Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate.)