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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998
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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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Child given recommended home solution with salt and sugar for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVSOLUT)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1163
End: 1164
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
459) When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she given any of the following to drink:

A fluid prepared from a special packet called ORS?
A light slurry made with corn, rice, millet, yams, manioc, plantain?
Soup?
Tea/Herbal Tea?
Homemade salt-sugar-water solution?
Milk or infant formula?
Yogurt based drink?
Water?
Any other liquids?

FLUID FROM ORS PACKET


YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

LIGHT SLURRY

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

SOUP

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

TEA/HERBAL TEA

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

SUGAR-SALT-WATER SOLUTION


YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

MILK/FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

YOGURT BASED DRINK

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Yes
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
00 No
11 Yes, spontaneous
12 Yes, probed
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, DIAGIVSOLUT (H14) indicates whether the child was given a recommended homemade solution to treat this illness.

concept

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