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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Cord around neck -4090 cord (vcord)

Data file: lvd_vasympnm

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 2099

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was the umbilical cord wrapped several times (more than once) around ${bname}'s neck at birth?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	144	85.2%
1	Yes	19	11.2%
8	Unknown	6	3.6%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		2099

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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