Home / Central Data Catalog / BGD_2007_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [C]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 2007
Get Microdata
Reference ID
BGD_2007_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), Mitra and Associates, and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
66023

Applied to umbilical cord: Alcohol/spirit (C_DELUMBTRALC)

Data file: BGD2007-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1102
End: 1102
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
430E) What was applied to the cord after it was cut and tied? Anything else?

ANTIBIOTICS (POWDER/OINTMENT) A
ANTISEPTIC (DETOL/SAVLON HEXISOL) B
SPIRIT/ALCOHOL C
MUSTARD OIL WITH GARLIC D
CHEWED RICE E
TUMERIC JUICE/POWDER F
GINGER JUICE G
SHIDUR H
BORIC POWDER I
GENTIAN VIOLET (BLUE INK) J
TALCOM POWDER K
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
DELUMBTRALC indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported that an alcohol or spirit was applied to the stump of the child's umbilical cord.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Newborn care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog