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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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Source of self-medication for recent illness/injury (H_ILLHCSELFMEDSRC)

Data file: CMR2011-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 760
End: 760
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
707) From whom did they seek drugs for the self-treatment?

PHARMACY 1
DRUG VENDOR (TRAVELLING, MARKET) 2
PLANT COLLECTION 3
DRUGS ALREADY AVAILABLE AT HOME 4 (GO TO 709)
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ 6
Categories
Value Category
1 Pharmacy
2 Informal drug vendor
3 Picking plants
4 Medicine already at home
5 Other
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
ILLHCSELFMEDSRC reports the source of the medication the household member took to self-medicate (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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