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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2005
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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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Sep 19, 2018
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Child taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: EGY2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1560
End: 1560
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
651) Where did you seek advice or treatment?

IF SOURCE IS A HOSPITAL, HEALTH UNIT OR CLINIC, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE. PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE AND CIRCLE THE APPROPRIATE CODE.

Anywhere else?
RECORD ALL PLACES MENTIONED.

(NAME OF PLACE(S)) _________________

GOVERNMENT

URBAN HOSPITAL C
URBAN HEALITH UNIT D
HEALTH OFFICE E
RURAL HOSPITAL F
RURAL HEALITH UNIT G
MCH CENTER H
OTHER GOV'T (SPECIFY) __________ I

NONGOVERNMENTAL

EGYPTIAN FP ASSOC J
CSI PROJECT K
OTHER NGO (SPECIFY) __________ L

PRIVATE MEDICAL

PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC M
PVT. DOCTOR N
PHARMACY O
OTHER PVT. MED. (SPECIFY) __________ P

OTHER NON-MEDICAL (SPECIFY) __________X
Categories
Value Category
0 Did not receive any treatment
1 Received treatment
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 a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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