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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Baby stiff, back arched -4230 arch_b (vtetanus)

Data file: lvd_vasympnm

Overview

Valid: 469

Invalid: 1799

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Did ${vname}'s body become stiff, with the back arched backwards?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	402	85.7%
1	Yes	4	0.9%
8	Unknown	63	13.4%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		1799

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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