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

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Sep 19, 2018

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Child had diarrhea recently (C_DIARRECENT)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1145

End: 1146

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

454) Has (NAME) had diarrhea in the last 2 weeks?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 464)
DK 8 (GO TO 464)

Categories

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes, recently
21	Yes, last 24 hours
22	Yes, last 2-14 days
23	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, DIARRECENT (H11) indicates whether the child had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks. Question wording differences affect the comparability of DIARRECENT; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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