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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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Child got same, increased, or decreased food with diarrhea (C_DIAFOODUPDN)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1152
End: 1153
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
466) When a child has diarrhea, should he/she be given less to eat than usual, about the same amount, or more than usual?

LESS TO EAT 1
ABOUT SAME AMOUNT TO EAT 2
MORE TO EAT 3
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Same
20 Increase
30 Decrease
31 Somewhat less
32 Much less
33 Stop entirely
40 Never gave food
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 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFOODUPDN (H39) indicates whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of food during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFOODUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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