ARK combined analytical dataset

Malawi, 2018 - 2019

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Reference ID

DDI-MWI-MEIRU-ARK-2018-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin

Collections

Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets Lilongwe HDSS

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How long did you take treatment for back pain (S) (remdbackpl)

Data file: ark_combined_final_meiruid

Overview

Valid: 11

Invalid: 1310

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 363

End: 363

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For the previous disease(s) , how long did you take the treatment? : Back pain.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	less than 1 week	7	63.6%
2	1-4 weeks	0	0%
3	one month	0	0%
4	2-6 months	0	0%
5	7-12 months	2	18.2%
6	more than 12 months	2	18.2%
Sysmiss		1310

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

How long did you take treatment for back pain

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

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

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