VA Verbal Autopsy Cause of Death

Malawi, 2004 - 2019

Get Microdata

Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-VACOD-2001-v1

Producer(s)

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

Collections

Karonga HDSS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 15, 2025

Page views

45812

Downloads

112

Doubts med care needed -7060 sdoubt (vmeddoubt)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 1145

Invalid: 3018

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In the final days, were there any doubts about whether the illness was sufficiently serious to need medical care at a health facility?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	1070	93.4%
1	Yes	58	5.1%
8	Unknown	17	1.5%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		3018

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.

Others

Notes

Available in versions -,, 03, 05, 06, 08, 10, 12, 13, 14

Back to Catalog