CAPS Pneumonia and exposure to household air pollution in children under the age of 5 in rural Malawi 2014 - 2016

Malawi, 2014 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-CAPS-2014-v1

Producer(s)

Professor Kevin Mortimer, Professor Stephen Gordon

Collections

Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Pneumonia severity recorded (pneumrec)

Data file: caps_fuppneum

Overview

Valid: 1335

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 16

End: 16

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Was the diagnosis of pneumonia noted in the health passport recorded?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Very severe	11	0.8%
2	Severe	129	9.7%
3	Not severe	472	35.4%
8	Severity not recorded/unable to determine	723	54.2%
98	Unknown	0	0%
99	Missing	0	0%

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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