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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011
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CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministère de la Santé Publique [Cameroon] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Self-medicated for recent illness/injury (H_ILLHCSELFMED)

Data file: CMR2011-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 759
End: 759
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
706) Did they use self-treatment?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 710)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
ILLHCSELFMED indicates whether the household member self-medicated (took medication without a prescription or a recommendation from a health professional) for a recent illness or injury.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General healthcare Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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