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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2004
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CMR_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de la Planification, de la Programmation du Développement et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of days after fever started chloroquine first taken (C_FEVCHLOR1ST)

Data file: CMR2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1734
End: 1735
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
474K) How long after the fever/convulsions started did (NAME) start to take the Chloroquine/Nivaquine?

SAME DAY 1
NEXT DAY 2
2 DAYS AFTER THE FEVER 3
3 OR MORE DAYS AFTER THE FEVER 4
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
00 Same day as fever/cough
10 Next day
20 2 days after
30 3(+) days after
31 4+ days after
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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
For young children who took chloroquine for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVCHLOR1ST (ML16A) reports how many days after the fever began that the child first started to take chloroquine. The drug is generally prescribed to treat malaria.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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