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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2005
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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
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: EGY2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1621
End: 1621
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
640) What (else) was given to treat the diarrhea?

Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOTILITY B
ZINC C
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY, OR ZINC) D
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP E

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC F
NON-ANTIBIOTIC . G
UNKNOWN INJECTION H
(IV) INTRAVENOUS . I

HOME REMEDY

HERBAL MEDICINE J
HOMEMADE SS SOLUTION K
OTHER (SPECIFY) __________ X
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
For young children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

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