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

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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

Value	Category
0	Did not receive any treatment
1	Received treatment
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

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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