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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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Amount children should be given to eat with diarrhea (W_DIASHOULDEAT)

Data file: CMR1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2074
End: 2074
Width: 1
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
1 Less to eat
2 Same amount to eat
3 More to eat
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
DIASHOULDEAT (V449) reports the respondent's beliefs about the amount of food a child with diarrhea should be given (more, less, or same amount as usual).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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