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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>2hr to get to hospital -7050 smore2 (vhcmore2)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 1146

Invalid: 3017

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Does it take more than 2 hours to get to the nearest hospital or health facility offering 24-hour service from ${hname}'s household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	948	82.7%
1	Yes	183	16%
8	Unknown	15	1.3%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		3017

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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