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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 given unspecified injection for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVINJUNSPEC)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1157
End: 1157
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
461) What was given to treat the diarrhea?
Anything else?

RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PILL OR SYRUP A
INJECTION B
(I.V.) INTRAVENOUS C
HOME REMEDIES/HERBAL MEDICINES D
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVINJUNSPEC indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given an unknown injection to treat this illness.

concept

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