STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Lilongwe, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Lilongwe

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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Reference ID

DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Ethnic background (ethnic)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 163

Invalid: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 132

End: 132

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your ethnic background?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Chewa	86	52.8%
2	Tumbuka	7	4.3%
3	Ngoni	25	15.3%
4	Yao	15	9.2%
5	Lomwe	17	10.4%
6	Nkhonde	1	0.6%
7	Other	12	7.4%
Sysmiss		6

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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