VES Vaccine Surveillance 2011 - 2015

Malawi, 2011 - 2015

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-VES-2011-v1

Producer(s)

Nigel A Cunliffe, Robert S Heyderman, Neil French

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Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Times in hospital (phospt)

Data file: ves_vese

Overview

Valid: 7625

Invalid: 15

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 109

End: 109

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Past Medical History
For Q36-38 do not count current visit:

Literal question

Since birth, how many times did your child have to stay overnight in hospital?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	0	4113	53.9%
1	1-2	2604	34.2%
2	3-5	815	10.7%
3	6-10	75	1%
4	>10	10	0.1%
8	Unknown	8	0.1%
9	Missing	15

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.

Question post text

If 0 skip to Q39 (In the last 3 months, how many times did your child visit a health centre for a reason other than vaccination?)

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