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

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Karonga HDSS

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Data file: admin_CODreviews

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Valid: 1158

Invalid: 9572

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 566

End: 566

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	referred	79	6.8%
1	started < 3 months before death	107	9.2%
2	on ARVs, duration unknown	42	3.6%
3	on ARVs for 3 month or more)	208	18%
8	Unknown	722	62.3%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		9572

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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