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Demographic and Health Survey 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Central African Republic, 2007
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COD_2007_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan [Democratic Republic of the Congo] et Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sign child needs treatment: Other (W_TROTHSYMP)

Data file: COD2007-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2638
End: 2638
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
488A) Sometimes children have serious illnesses and they must be taken to a health care establishment immediately. What types of symptoms would prompt you to take your child to a health care establishment immediately?

CANNOT DRINK OR NURSE A
GETS SICKER B
DEVELOPS A FEVER C
BREATHING RAPIDLY D
DIFFICULTY BREATHING E
BLOOD IN STOOLS F
DIFFICULTLY DRINKING G
NOT PLAYING H
CONSTANTLY CRYING I
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
TROTHSYMP indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that a child with some other symptom should immediately be taken to a health facility. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific response categories included in a particular sample.

concept

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