S1 Data. Causes of mortality data for Ethiopia from 1990 to 2015, retrieved from the Global Burden of Disease Study, IHME

This file contains data from the Global Burden of Disease Study retrieved from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool. It has four different sheets; “data-PLOS”, “pivot”, “code” and survival”. data-PLOS: This sheet includes mortality data files of Ethiopia for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015 directly retrieved from the global burden of disease study; IHME website; Pivot: This sheet is a pivot format of the data-PLOS which helps for further categorization and ordering the causes of mortality based on their burden in terms of death, sex, year and age categories; Code: the code sheet is a direct download of the causes of death from IHME code book.

It helps to identify each cause by level (Hierarchy I, Hierarchy II, and Hierarchy III);Survival: This sheet includes the final 20 causes of death (including others) that are selected for life expectancy decomposition by year ready to be exported to survival 6-software.