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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ever smoked cigarettes (resmoke)

Data file: stsl_stsf_partb

Overview

Valid: 168

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 17

End: 17

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you ever smoked cigarettes regularly (i.e. at least weekly)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never	129	76.8%
1	Formerly (stopped more than 6 months ago)	6	3.6%
2	Current (in last 6 months)	33	19.6%

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 never go to Q 20.6

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