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

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Professor Kevin Mortimer, Professor Stephen Gordon

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Karonga HDSS

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Three stone fire usage frequency (threefreq)

Data file: caps_fuphse

Overview

Valid: 12893

Invalid: 12482

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 31

End: 31

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

How often do you use three stone open fire?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	7789	60.4%
2	Some (at least one meal)	564	4.4%
3	About half	476	3.7%
4	Most (2-3 meals)	1874	14.5%
5	All cooking and water boiling is done on the stove	2190	17%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		12482

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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