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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season of death (vseas)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 1147

Invalid: 3016

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did the death occur during the wet or dry season?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Dry season	665	58%
2	Wet season	477	41.6%
8	Unknown	5	0.4%
9	missing	0
Sysmiss		3016

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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