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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Nov 14, 2025

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Nov 15, 2025

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Underlying duration of illness (uduration)

Data file: admin_CODreviews

Overview

Valid: 10093

Invalid: 637

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 173

End: 173

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Acute	4649	46.1%
2	Chronic	5349	53%
8	Unknown	95	0.9%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		637

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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