Physician review cause of death (labelled)

Malawi

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Reference ID

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

Producer(s)

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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High level contributory cause of death (D) (ccod1)

Data file: admin_CODsummary_labelled

Overview

Valid: 247

Invalid: 3631

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 344

End: 345

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Uncoded	0	0%
0	Unspec/other	3	1.2%
1	Communicable Disease	40	16.2%
2	Maternal	1	0.4%
3	Non-Communicable Disease	190	76.9%
4	External	4	1.6%
5	Infancy	9	3.6%
Sysmiss		3631

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 contributory cause of death

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: clevel1 (table[s]: admin_CODsummary)
Variable is renamed and labelled

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