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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MWI-MEIRU-CAPS-2014-v1

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Professor Kevin Mortimer, Professor Stephen Gordon

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Karonga HDSS

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Cook - Where cook dry season (cookdry)

Data file: caps_blhse

Overview

Valid: 4860

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 223

End: 223

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

During the dry season, where is most of the cooking at your home done?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Outside in a separate structure with a roof only	1083	22.3%
2	Outside in a separate structure with walls and a roof	2427	49.9%
3	On the khonde	1034	21.3%
4	Inside in a separate room (kitchen)	115	2.4%
5	Inside in a living room	147	3%
6	Outside in an open space	54	1.1%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	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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