# MSF Survey Dictionaries

The currently available MSF survey dictionaries:

- Retrospective mortality and access to care (“Mortality”)
- Malnutrition (“Nutrition”)
- Vaccination coverage long form (“Vaccination_long”)
- Vaccination coverage short form (“vaccination_short”)
- Event based surveillance (“ebs”)

# Retrospective mortality and access to care (“mortality”)

## Variables in the dictionary

The Mortality dictionary contains definitions for 174 variables:

## Option codes

The dictionaries are exported using option codes that can be translated to human-readable format. This table shows how they are translated.

# Malnutrition (“nutrition”)

## Variables in the dictionary

The Nutrition dictionary contains definitions for 27 variables:

## Option codes

The dictionaries are exported using option codes that can be translated to human-readable format. This table shows how they are translated.

# Vaccination Coverage (“vaccination_long” or “Vaccination_short”)

## Variables in the dictionary

There are two Vaccination dictionaries - a long form and a short form.
The Vaccination long dictionary contains definitions for 106 variables:

The Vaccination short dictionary contains definitions for 38 variables:

## Option codes

The dictionaries are exported using option codes that can be translated to human-readable format. This table shows how they are translated.

For vaccination long:

For vaccination short:

# Exploring the dictionaries

You can explore the excel-formatted dictionaries with `browseURL(system.file("extdata", "MSF-survey-dict.xlsx", package = "epidict"))`, but treat it as read-only.