Physician review cause of death (labelled)

Malawi

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Reference ID

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

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Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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Nov 14, 2025

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High level underlying cause of death (D) (ucod1)

Data file: admin_CODsummary_labelled

Overview

Valid: 3878

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 105

End: 106

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Uncoded	0	0%
0	Unspec/other	250	6.4%
1	Communicable Disease	1734	44.7%
2	Maternal	54	1.4%
3	Non-Communicable Disease	1179	30.4%
4	External	238	6.1%
5	Infancy	423	10.9%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

High level underlying cause of death

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: ulevel1 (table[s]: admin_CODsummary)
Variable is renamed and labelled

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