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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Dead baby macerated -4170 mushy (vmacerated)

Data file: lvd_vasympsb

Overview

Valid: 124

Invalid: 589

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was the dead baby macerated, that is, showed signs of decay?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	81	65.3%
1	Yes	42	33.9%
8	Unknown	1	0.8%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		589

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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