ARK combined analytical dataset

Malawi, 2018 - 2019

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Reference ID

DDI-MWI-MEIRU-ARK-2018-v01

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Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin

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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets Lilongwe HDSS

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What is your ethnic group/racial group/cultural subgroup background? (S) (ethnic)

Data file: ark_combined_final_meiruid

Overview

Valid: 1026

Invalid: 295

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 191

End: 192

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your ethnicity?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Chewa	188	18.3%
2	Tumbuka	412	40.2%
3	Ngoni	109	10.6%
4	Yao	42	4.1%
5	Lomwe	68	6.6%
6	Nkhonde	48	4.7%
7	Refused	0	0%
8	Other	158	15.4%
98	Unknown	1	0.1%
Sysmiss		295

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

What is your ethnic group/racial group/cultural subgroup background?

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: ethnic (table[s]: arkk_arkq, arkl_arkq)

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