INDEPTH_verbalAutopsy: Verbal autopsy codes
In alexploner/R.HDSS: Process HDSS demographic data from the INDEPTH project

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The verbal autopsy codes for causes of death used in the INDEPTH project, and how they map to WHO codes and categories, as well as of our own categories.

A data frame with ten variables and 68 observations

Code. The code as seen in the raw HDSS data files. Note that we allow for variation of separators and white space for fusion codes.
Label. A representative sample of a label associated with this code. This is purely informative and not used for mapping.
isWHOcode. Logical flag, indicating whether this is a code seen in WHORC1.
isWHOlabel. Logical flag, indicating whether the label in the data corresponds to a label seen in WHORC1 (up to spelling, abbreviation).
WHOcategory. One of 14 categories for verbal autospy results defined in WHORC1.
mappedCode. The internal code that we use to present the code seen in the data files.
mappedLabelLong. A long label for this code; this is taken directly from WHORC1.
mappedLabelShort. An abbreviated version of the label.
mappedCategory. A condensed categorisation of causes of death used for data exploration.
Comment. Anything even faintly interesting about this row of data.

Manual extration based on existing Stata code

Verbal autopsy standards: ascertaining and attributing causes of death. The 2012 WHO verbal autopsy instrument, Release Candidate 1. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/verbalautopsystandards/en/

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