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

Collections

Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Medication for high bloood persure (remdbp)

Data file: ncd_combined_data_all

Overview

Valid: 2755

Invalid: 27820

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 140

End: 140

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Are you on regular medication for high blood pressure?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1499	54.4%
1	Yes	1251	45.4%
8	Unknown	5	0.2%
Sysmiss		27820

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.

Question post text

If No go to Q10.9

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: remdbp (table[s]: ncdk_persexam & ncdl_persexam)

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