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

Collections

Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Hospital told COD (vtelldied)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 3034

Invalid: 1129

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did anyone from the hospital tell you (or anyone in the family) why the death occurred?
Did anyone there from the hospital tell you why s/he died?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1567	51.6%
1	Yes	1376	45.4%
7	Not applicable	2	0.1%
8	Unknown	89	2.9%
9	Missing	422
Sysmiss		707

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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