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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patient live alone (livealone)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 107

End: 107

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Does the patient live alone?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes, lives alone	3	1.8%
2	No, with spouse	102	60.4%
3	No, with parents	3	1.8%
4	No, with relatives	52	30.8%
5	No, with other people	9	5.3%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0

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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