NUHDSS - Verbal Autopsy, Causes of deaths 2002-2015

KENYA, 2002 - 2016
Nairobi Urban Health & Demographic Surveillance System

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

child (29 days-59 mths) had marasmus in the month prior to death (vu5_marasmus_legswelling)

Data file: Verbalautopsy_2002-2015

Overview

vald 6218

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did the child have marasmus during the month before he/she died?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	no	0	0%
1	yes	22	0.4%
2	no	62	1%
6	other	0	0%
7	refused	0	0%
8	don't know	16	0.3%
9	NIU (not in universe)	5853	94.1%
96	other	0	0%
97	refused	0	0%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
9999995	missing:impute	265	4.3%

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.

Question pretext

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

Description

Text

Whether the deceased had marasmus in the month prior to death.

Universe

All deceased individuals aged 29 days - 59 months.