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NUHDSS - Verbal Autopsy, Causes of deaths 2002-2015

KENYA, 2002 - 2016
Nairobi Urban Health & Demographic Surveillance System
African Population and Health Research Center
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CSV JSON

broad immediate cause of death: doctor 1 (pcodbroad_immed_doctor1)

Data file: Verbalautopsy_2002-2015

Overview

vald 6218
invd 0
Interval discrete
Decimal 0
Range 1 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Record the information below from the death certificate:Immediate cause of death
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 AIDS/HIV 542
8.7%
2 anaemia 90
1.4%
3 asthma 29
0.5%
4 cardiovascular 129
2.1%
5 COPD 2
0%
6 diabetets mellitus 36
0.6%
7 diarrhoeal diseases 0
0%
8 direct obstetric 61
1%
9 infectious diseases 643
10.3%
10 injuries 961
15.5%
11 liver disease 54
0.9%
12 malaria 0
0%
13 malnutrition 23
0.4%
14 meningitis 230
3.7%
15 neonatal causes 256
4.1%
16 malignancies 107
1.7%
17 respiratory tract infections 500
8%
18 tuberculosis 380
6.1%
960 other 0
0%
961 other communicable disease 1
0%
962 other non-communicable disease 381
6.1%
963 other external cause 0
0%
991 indeterminate 480
7.7%
992 indeterminate (had InterVA symptoms) 0
0%
993 indeterminate (no InterVA symptoms) 0
0%
994 physican cod not yet assigned 474
7.6%
995 va not done 723
11.6%
997 refused 0
0%
998 don't know 0
0%
999 NIU (not in universe) 0
0%
9999995 missing:impute 116
1.9%
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.
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Description

Text
The immediate cause of death (ICD-10 code) assigned by doctor 1 (collapsed into these broad categories: AIDS/HIV, anaemia, asthma, cardiovascular, COPD, diabetets mellitus, diarrhoeal diseases, direct obstetric, infectious diseases, injuries, liver disease, malaria, malnutrition, meningitis, neonatal causes, malignancies, respiratory tract infections, tuberculosis).
Universe
All deceased individuals.
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