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

45353

Downloads

112

Was on ART (art)

Data file: admin_CODreviews

Overview

Valid: 1158

Invalid: 9572

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 566

End: 566

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	referred	79	6.8%
1	started < 3 months before death	107	9.2%
2	on ARVs, duration unknown	42	3.6%
3	on ARVs for 3 month or more)	208	18%
8	Unknown	722	62.3%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		9572

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