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 cholesterol (remdcho)

Data file: ncd_combined_data_all

Overview

Valid: 71

Invalid: 30504

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 156

End: 156

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Are you on regular medication for raised cholesterol?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	61	85.9%
1	Yes	10	14.1%
8	Unknown	0	0%
Sysmiss		30504

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: remdcho (table[s]: ncdk_persexam & ncdl_persexam)

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