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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What stool look like (vdiarrdes)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 553

Invalid: 3610

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

What did the stool look like?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Bloody	60	10.8%
2	Watery	425	76.9%
3	Loose, but not watery	26	4.7%
8	Unknown	42	7.6%
9	missing	27
Sysmiss		3583

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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