Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2005

Reference ID

EGY_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Population [Egypt], National Population Council [Egypt], El-Zanaty and Associates, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Sep 19, 2018

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Sep 19, 2018

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Child given oral rehydration for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVORS)

Data file: EGY2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1617

End: 1618

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

638) Was he/she given a fluid made from a special packet called mahloul moalget el gafaf?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

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.

concept

Concept

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

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