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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998
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CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Ministère des Investissements Publics et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Signs cough needs treatment: Not eat/drink (B_COUTRNOTEAT)

Data file: CMR1998-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 844
End: 844
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
468) When a child is sick with a cough, what signs of illness would tell you that he or she should be taken to a health facility or health worker?

RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

RAPID BREATHING A
DIFFICULT BREATHING B
NOISY BREATHING C
FEVER D
UNABLE TO DRINK E
NOT EATING/NOT DRINKING WELL F
GETS SICKER/VERY SICK G
NOT GETTING BETTER H
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ X
DK Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, not eat/drink
8 Missing
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
COUTRNOTEAT indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that not eating or not drinking well indicated a child sick with a cough should be taken to a health facility or health worker for treatment.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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