VA Verbal Autopsy Cause of Death

Malawi, 2004 - 2019

Get Microdata

Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-VACOD-2001-v1

Producer(s)

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

Collections

Karonga HDSS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 15, 2025

Page views

45255

Downloads

112

Underlying intent (uintent)

Data file: admin_CODreviews

Overview

Valid: 487

Invalid: 10243

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 424

End: 424

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Accidental	358	73.5%
2	Intentionally inflicted by someone else	30	6.2%
3	Intentionally inflicted by themselves (suicide)	65	13.3%
8	Unknown	34	7%
9	missing	0
Sysmiss		10243

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.

Back to Catalog