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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Born >4.5kg -4060 born_big (vbbig)

Data file: lvd_vasympnm

Overview

Valid: 276

Invalid: 1992

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was ${bname} larger than normal, weighing over 4.5 kg?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	244	88.4%
1	Yes	31	11.2%
8	Unknown	1	0.4%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		1992

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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