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

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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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main work last 12 months (work)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 163

Invalid: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 144

End: 145

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Which of the following describes your main work status in the past 12 months?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Government employee	3	1.8%
2	Employee non govt	28	17.2%
3	Subsistence farmer/fisherman	34	20.9%
4	Self employed	20	12.3%
5	Student	2	1.2%
6	At home housework	35	21.5%
7	Unemployed able to work	12	7.4%
8	Unemployed unable to work	10	6.1%
9	Retired	16	9.8%
10	Other	3	1.8%
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.

Question post text

If Q 4.6= 4, 7,8,9 skip to Q4.9

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