ARK combined analytical dataset

Malawi, 2018 - 2019

Get Microdata

Reference ID

DDI-MWI-MEIRU-ARK-2018-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin

Collections

Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets Lilongwe HDSS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 18, 2025

Page views

18153

Downloads

172

HIV rapid test result data availability (D) (rtr_m)

Data file: ark_combined_final_meiruid

Overview

Valid: 1321

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1096

End: 1096

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not available	551	41.7%
1	Available	770	58.3%

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.

Description

Definition

HIV rapid test result data availability

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

this variable is created during the merge of HIV data to the main dataset and then is recoded to be binary available/not available.

Back to Catalog