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 use butter-marg (nbutmag)

Data file: ncd_combined_data_all

Overview

Valid: 30168

Invalid: 407

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 83

End: 83

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How often do you use consume butter or margarine?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Daily/most days	1782	5.9%
2	3-4 days per week	1283	4.3%
3	1-2 days per week	2197	7.3%
4	Very rarely or never	24906	82.6%
8	Don't know	0	0%
9	Missing	407

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: nbutmag (table[s]: ncdk_personal, ncdl_personal)

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