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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Nov 15, 2025

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Breathless lying flat -2180 lying_br (vshrtbrflat)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 506

Invalid: 3657

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Was ${vname} breathless while lying flat?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	253	50%
1	Yes	250	49.4%
8	Unknown	3	0.6%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		3657

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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