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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Cold before death -4280 cold (vcold)

Data file: lvd_vasympnm

Overview

Valid: 164

Invalid: 2104

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did ${vname} become cold to the touch before death?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	129	78.7%
1	Yes	30	18.3%
8	Unknown	5	3%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		2104

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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