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

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Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Injury accidental or intentional (vinjint)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 161

Invalid: 4002

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was the injury accidental or intentional?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Accidental	114	70.8%
2	Intentionally inflicted by someone else	8	5%
3	Intentionally inflicted by themselves (suicide)	37	23%
8	Unknown	2	1.2%
9	missing	0
Sysmiss		4002

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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