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Demographic and Health Survey 1995 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1995
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EGY_1995_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Council [Egypt] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Signs cough needs treatment: Fever (C_COUTRFEVER)

Data file: EGY1995-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 864
End: 864
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
629. When a child is sick with a cough, what signs of illness would tell you that he or she should be taken to a health facility or health worker? RECORD ALL MENTIONED,

FAST BREATHING A
DIFFICULT BREATHING B
NOISY BREATHING C
STRONG COUGH/FREQUENT COUGH D
FEVER E
UNABLE TO DRINK F
NOT EATING/NOT DRINKING WELL G
GETTING SICKER/VERY SICK N
NOT GETTING BETTER I
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, fever
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
COUTRFEVER indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that fever indicated a child sick with a cough should be taken to a health facility or health worker for treatment.

concept

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