Table 2.

Attrition in the MLSFH-MAC sample, 2012 to 2018

	Women	Men	Total
2012 MLSFH-MAC respondents	724	542	1266
2018 MLSFH-MAC survey outcome for 2012 respondents:
Completed interview	0.874	0.834	0.857
Dead	0.101	0.140	0.118
Moved and lost to follow-up	0.003	0.009	0.006
Other	0.022	0.017	0.020

Survey outcome ‘moved’ includes respondents who moved and were not found during the migration follow-ups in 2017 and 2018. ‘Other’ includes respondents who were not successfully interviewed because of various reasons such as temporarily absent, hospitalised, and so on.

MLSFH-MAC, Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health.