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Demographic and Health Survey 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1991
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CMR_1991_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan et de l'Aménagement du Territoire (Direction Nationale du Deuxième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat)[Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Source of advice/treatment before death: Traditional healer (C_KDEATHPRIVHL)

Data file: CMR1991-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 992
End: 992
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
506) During the illness that caused (NAME)'s death, did you take him/her somewhere for a consultation?

IF YES: Where did you take him/her?
Anywhere else?

RECORD ALL THE RESPONSES LISTED

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL A
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CENTER B
GOVERNMENT HEALTH POST C
MOBILE CLINIC D

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PRIVATE RELIGIOUS HOSPITAL E
PRIVATE SECULAR HOSPITAL F
HEALTH CENTER/RELIGIOUS CLINIC/MISSION G
PHARMACY H
PRIVATE DOCTOR I

OTHER PRIVATE SECTOR

TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER J

OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ K
NOWHERE L
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
KDEATHPRIVHL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported taking the child to a traditional practitioner for advice or treatment during the illness leading to the child's death.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cause of death Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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