STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Chilumba, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Karonga

Malawi, 2014 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-KA-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor MiaCrampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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ever smoked cigarettes (resmoke)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 83

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 187

End: 187

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Have you ever smoked cigarettes regularly (i.e. at least weekly)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never	65	78.3%
1	Formerly (stopped more than 6 months ago)	11	13.3%
2	Current (in last 6 months)	7	8.4%

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.

Question post text

If never go to Q 20.6

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