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

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Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Nov 18, 2025

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How serious was the burn (burnser)

Data file: caps_burns

Overview

Valid: 1305

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 16

End: 16

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

How serious was the burn?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Light (there is no scar)	453	34.7%
2	Moderate (scar small than a new MK10 coin)	606	46.4%
3	Serious (single scar larger than a new MK10 coin, or multiple small scars whose total area is greater than a new MK10 coin)	246	18.9%
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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