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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Depression --1320 depress (vdepress)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 809

Invalid: 3354

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Any diagnosis of depression?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	782	96.7%
1	Yes	17	2.1%
8	Unknown	10	1.2%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		3354

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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