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

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 15, 2025

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Data file: lvd_vasympsb

Overview

Valid: 47

Invalid: 666

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was the health document reviewed?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	0	0%
2	Never issued	5	10.6%
3	Reviewed	32	68.1%
4	Destroyed or lost	2	4.3%
5	Temp not available, but may be in future	8	17%
7	Not applicable	0	0%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		666

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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