Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998

Reference ID

CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

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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Sep 19, 2018

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Child had cough/difficult breathing recently (C_COURECENT)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1110

End: 1111

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

450) Has (NAME) been ill with a cough at any time in the last 2 weeks?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 453A)
DK 8 (GO TO 453A)

Categories

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes
21	Yes, past four weeks/month
22	Yes, last 24 hours
23	Yes, last 2 to 14 days
24	Yes, last two weeks
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 surviving children under age 5, COURECENT (H31) indicates whether the child experienced a cough in the past 2 weeks. Question wording differences may limit the comparability of COURECENT; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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