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

Malawi

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Reference ID

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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Smear positivity (D) (smeacult_old)

Data file: combined_tb_cases_controls_final

Overview

Valid: 3948

Invalid: 8963

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 229

End: 229

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Smear positivity

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Smear	2143	54.3%
2	Culture	278	7%
3	Other	1296	32.8%
8	Unknown	231	5.9%
9	Missing	136
Sysmiss		8827

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: smeacult (table[s]: tb_tbx, tb_tbxto2007)

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