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

severity of adult's (5+ yrs) weight loss prior to death (va5_severe_weightloss)

Data file: Verbalautopsy_2002-2015

Overview

vald 6218

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Was the weight loss 1=Severe; 2=Moderate; 8=Don't know)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	severe	1078	17.3%
2	mild/moderate	613	9.9%
6	other	0	0%
7	refused	0	0%
8	don't know	0	0%
9	NIU (not in universe)	3322	53.4%
9999995	missing:impute	1205	19.4%

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

The severity of the weight loss prior to death.

Universe

All deceased individuals aged 5 years and above.