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

sought healthcare for illness/injury (vau_soughthealthcare)

Data file: Verbalautopsy_2002-2015

Overview

vald 6218

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Was health care sought while (NAME) was sick/injured?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	no	0	0%
1	yes	4290	69%
2	no	1139	18.3%
6	other	0	0%
7	refused	0	0%
8	don't know	38	0.6%
9	NIU (not in universe)	723	11.6%
96	other	0	0%
97	refused	0	0%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
9999995	missing:impute	28	0.5%

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

IF THE ANSWER IS 2 OR 8, SKIP AND READ INSTRUCTION JUST BEFORE Q.1.10

Interviewer instructions

Description

Text

Whether the deceased sought healthcare for illness/injury.

Universe

All deceased individuals.