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Malawi, 2013 - 2016
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MWI-MEIRU-NCD-2013-v1.0
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Prof Moffat Nyirenda, Prof Shabbar Jaffar
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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS
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Whether household owns a sofa (household mode) (D) (sofa_mode)

Data file: ncd_combined_data_all

Overview

Valid: 30575
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 112
End: 112
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 15695
51.3%
1 Yes 14880
48.7%
8 Unknown 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: sofa (table[s]: ncdk_pershh, ncdl_pershh)
variable: house (table[s]: derived variable)
As this was asked to each person the mode response within the household is assigned to everyone in the house - if there is no most common response then the response of the oldest person is taken.
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