Household Demographic Surveillance System, Cause-Specific Mortality 1992-2012

World, 1992 - 2012

Reference ID

WLD_1992-2012_INDEPTH_v01_M

Producer(s)

Osman A. Sankoh, Peter Byass, P. Kim Streatfield, Wasif A. Khan, Abba Bhuiya, Nurul Alam, Ali Sie, Abdramane Soura, Bassirou Bonfoh, Berhe Weldearegawi, Abraham Oduro, Margaret Gyapong, Momodou Jasseh, Siswanto Wilopo, Shashi Kant, Sanjay Juvekar, Thomas N. Williams, Frank O. Odhiambo, Alex Ezeh,

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Dec 23, 2014

Last modified

Mar 29, 2019

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Malaria level (mal_level)

Data file: CODA_2013_v7_Anonymised

Overview

Valid: 163334

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 31

End: 31

Width: 1

Format:

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
H
L

Description

Definition

Malaria exposure level in the geographic area where the site is situated. The InterVA-4 “high” (value='H') malaria setting was used for all the West African sites, plus the East African sites (with the exceptions, on the grounds of high altitude, of Nairobi, Kenya and Kilite-Awlaelo, Ethiopia), on the basis of local experience. All other sites used the “low” (value='L') setting; the “very low” setting was not used. The InterVA-4 guideline is that the “high” setting is appropriate for an expected malaria CSMF higher than about 1%, though the setting chosen does not result in any great dichotomisation of outputs; the clinical equivalent would be a physician’s knowledge that his/her current case comes from a setting where malaria is more or less likely, irrespective of particular symptoms

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