BCG Immunology Study: Protective immunity following neonatal BCG vaccination

Malawi, 2007 - 2010

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-BIS-2007-v1

Producer(s)

Dr Kate Watkins, Immunologist,

Collections

Karonga HDSS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 18, 2025

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Fertility method (fertilmeth)

Data file: bis_mother

Overview

Valid: 13

Invalid: 299

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 136

End: 136

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

This pregnancy

Literal question

If yes (Did you do use any means to help you to become pregnant with this baby?), probe which methods?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	African Doctor	0	0%
2	Herbs + African doctor	3	23.1%
3	Herbs/Herbalist	9	69.2%
4	Modern medicine	0	0%
5	Others	1	7.7%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		299

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.

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