NCD Combined analytical dataset

Malawi, 2013 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-NCD-2013-v1.0

Producer(s)

Prof Moffat Nyirenda, Prof Shabbar Jaffar

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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS

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How often home cooked food (prmeal)

Data file: ncd_combined_data_all

Overview

Valid: 30575

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 80

End: 80

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

On average, how often in a week do you eat food that was cooked at home?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Daily/most days	29628	96.9%
2	3-4 days per week	757	2.5%
3	1-2 days per week	133	0.4%
4	Very rarely or never	57	0.2%
8	Don't know	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.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: prmeal (table[s]: ncdk_personal, ncdl_personal)

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