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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988
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Reference ID
EGY_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Population Council [Egypt] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child given oral rehydration for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVORS)

Data file: EGY1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 784
End: 785
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
813. There are many kinds of things parents do to treat children with diarrhea. During the most recent episode, was (NAME) given:

mahloul el-gaffaf?

YES 1
NO 2

other medicine(s)?

YES 1 (SPECIFY) ____
NO 2

intravenous fluids?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
10 No
20 Yes
21 Yes, ORS - spontaneous
22 Yes, ORS - probed
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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
For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVORS (H13) indicates whether the child was given a sugar-salt-water solution or oral rehydration solution (ORS) to treat this illness.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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