VA Verbal Autopsy Cause of Death

Malawi, 2004 - 2019

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-VACOD-2001-v1

Producer(s)

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

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Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Data file: admin_CODsummary

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Valid: 1087

Invalid: 2791

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 438

End: 438

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	referred	73	6.7%
1	started < 3 months before death	92	8.5%
2	on ARVs, duration unknown	40	3.7%
3	on ARVs for 3 month or more)	195	17.9%
8	Unknown	687	63.2%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		2791

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.

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