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Physician review cause of death (labelled)

Malawi
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MWI-MEIRU-admin-CODsummary-labelled-2002-v1
Producer(s)
Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Access policy
  • Data Access
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MWI-MEIRU-admin-CODsummary-labelled-2002-v1
    Title

    Physician review cause of death (labelled)
    Country
    Name Country code
    Malawi MWI
    Study type

    Demographic Surveillance
    Abstract

    Causes of death are coded using 3 levels and the data are stored with the values for these 3 levels separately: this dataset has one variable for each cause (direct, underlying and contributory) using all three levels and labels them
    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Date

    2020-06-18

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit London School of Hygein and Tropical Medicine
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name
    MEIRU Core datamanagement team

    Data collection

    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Abbreviation
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit MEIRU

    Access policy

    Archive where study is originally stored

    Chilumba

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
    Access conditions

    These data are made available for licensed access under the following conditions:

    1. Data and other material provided by MEIRU will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions or organisations without MEIRU's written agreement.

    2. In the case of multi-centre datasets, data originating from a single contributing member centre of the collaboration may not be analysed or reported on in isolation without the express permission of the member centre concerned.

    3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and there will be no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery will be reported immediately to MEIRU.

    4. No attempt will be made to produce links between datasets provided by MEIRU or between MEIRU data and other datasets that could identify individuals.

    5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports or other publications employing data obtained from MEIRU will cite the source, in line with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.

    6. An electronic copy of all publications based on the requested data will be sent to MEIRU.

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-MWI-MEIRU-Adim-CODsummary-labelled-2002-v1
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Chifundo Kanjala CK MEIRU Documentation planning and supervision
    Elizabeth Munthali EM MEIRU Metadata entry and editing
    Estelle McLean EM LSHTM Production of the documentation used to create this DDI document
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-06-18
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