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

Metadata

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Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 15, 2025

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Health doc reviewed (vhdoc)

Data file: lvd_vasymp

Overview

Valid: 671

Invalid: 3492

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	0	0%
2	Never issued	12	1.8%
3	Reviewed	308	45.9%
4	Destroyed or lost	285	42.5%
5	Temp not available, but may be in future	66	9.8%
7	Not applicable	0	0%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		3492

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

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