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

female (12-49 years, 6 wks post delivery) had: prolonged labour (vafem_6wks_long_labour)

Data file: Verbalautopsy_2002-2015

Overview

vald 6218

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Was the labor prolonged (>24 hours in women delivering for the first time and >8-10 hours in repeat pregnancies)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	no	0	0%
1	yes	13	0.2%
2	no	16	0.3%
6	other	0	0%
7	refused	0	0%
8	don't know	5	0.1%
9	NIU (not in universe)	5781	93%
96	other	0	0%
97	refused	0	0%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
9999995	missing:impute	403	6.5%

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 a prolonged labour.

Universe

All deceased female individuals aged 12-49 years who died within 6 weeks of pregnancy ending.