TB cases (1974-2018) and controls (1998-2018) analytical dataset (Karonga)

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MWI-MEIRU-TB-COMBINE-FINAL-2022-v01

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Mia Crampin, Estelle McLean

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Karonga -District-wide Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Categorised occupation variable (D) (occgp)

Data file: combined_tb_cases_controls_final

Overview

Valid: 7098

Invalid: 5813

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 75

End: 76

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Categorised occupation variable

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not working	1139	16%
1	student	0	0%
2	unskilled manual (irr wage)	142	2%
3	farmer	4098	57.7%
4	fisherman	143	2%
5	skilled manual (irr wage)	305	4.3%
6	non-manual (irr wage)	28	0.4%
7	small trader/business	283	4%
8	unskilled manual (reg wage)	145	2%
9	skilled manual (reg wage)	137	1.9%
10	non-manual (reg wage)	43	0.6%
11	professional	635	8.9%
Sysmiss		5813

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: occupation [main occupation] (table[s]: derived variable)
variable: emp [employment status] (table[s]: tb_tbx, tb_tbo, tb_tboto2007)

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