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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Chest pain duration (vchpdur)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 802

Invalid: 3361

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

When ${vname} had an attack of severe chest pain, how long did it last?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 30 minutes	46	5.7%
2	More than 30 minutes, but less than 24 hours	130	16.2%
3	More than 24 hours	525	65.5%
8	Unknown	101	12.6%
9	missing	23
Sysmiss		3338

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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