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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Where baby born (vbdeldwhr)

Data file: lvd_vasympnm

Overview

Valid: 299

Invalid: 1969

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Where was ${bname} born?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Home	23	7.7%
2	Health centre/hospital	253	84.6%
3	Elsewhere e.g. on the way to a facility	19	6.4%
8	Unknown	4	1.3%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		1969

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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