GAP Growth in Adolescence :Potential interventions to improve growth,health & reduce future non-communicable disease

Malawi, 2016

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MWI-MEIRU-GAP-2016-v1.0

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Dr Marko Kerac

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Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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do you do anything to make the water safer to drink? (Form B) (water_safe)

Data file: gap_combined

Overview

Valid: 592

Invalid: 552

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1200

End: 1200

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Do you do anything to make the water safer to drink? (Form B)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No, nothing	445	75.2%
1	Boil	17	2.9%
2	Add bleach/chlorine /water guard	108	18.2%
3	Strain through a cloth	3	0.5%
4	Use water filter (ceremic/ sand. Etc)	1	0.2%
5	Solar disinfection	1	0.2%
6	Let it stand and settle	6	1%
7	Other	4	0.7%
8	Unknown	7	1.2%
Sysmiss		552

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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