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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Contributary intent (cintent)

Data file: admin_CODreviews

Overview

Valid: 10

Invalid: 10720

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 432

End: 432

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Accidental	8	80%
2	Intentionally inflicted by someone else	1	10%
3	Intentionally inflicted by themselves (suicide)	0	0%
8	Unknown	1	10%
9	missing	0
Sysmiss		10720

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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