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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Categorised occupation variable of household head (D) (occgphead)

Data file: combined_tb_cases_controls_final

Overview

Valid: 6174

Invalid: 6737

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 90

End: 91

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Categorised occupation variable of household head

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not working	75	1.2%
1	student	0	0%
2	unskilled manual (irr wage)	155	2.5%
3	farmer	4121	66.7%
4	fisherman	170	2.8%
5	skilled manual (irr wage)	334	5.4%
6	non-manual (irr wage)	36	0.6%
7	small trader/business	302	4.9%
8	unskilled manual (reg wage)	168	2.7%
9	skilled manual (reg wage)	141	2.3%
10	non-manual (reg wage)	39	0.6%
11	professional	633	10.3%
Sysmiss		6737

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: occuphead [occupation of household head] (table[s]: derived variable)
variable: emphead [employment status of household head] (table[s]: tb_tbx, tb_tbxto2007, tb_tbo, tb_tboto2007)

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