LIS Latent TB infection phase 1 and 2 2009

Malawi, 2008 - 2012

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-TB-LIS-2008-v01

Producer(s)

Dr. Anne Ben-Smith, Prof. Amelia C Crampin

Collections

Karonga HDSS Karonga -District-wide

Metadata

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Nov 14, 2025

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Sputum collected (sputcoll)

Data file: tb_lis

Overview

Valid: 9

Invalid: 1638

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If cough >3 weeks / haemoptysis / TB suspect on other grounds

Literal question

On the spot sputum collected?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	5	55.6%
1	Yes	4	44.4%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	3
Sysmiss		1635

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.

Others

Notes

must be blank if cough (cough) = 0, must be blank if ADL status (adl) <> 1;

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