Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998

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Reference ID

NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Heard of ORS for diarrhea treatment (C_DIATRORSHEARD)

Data file: NER1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 881

End: 882

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

470) Have you ever heard of a product that can be obtained to treat diarrhea called ORS?

YES 1
NO 2

Categories

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes
21	Used ORS
22	Heard of ORS
23	Recognized ORS packet
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

DIATRORSHEARD (V416) indicates whether the woman ever heard of using an oral rehydration solution (ORS) to treat diarrhea. ORS generally consists of drinking water with the addition of sugar and salt (in a homemade solution) or a commercial mixture of salt, glucose, potassium chloride, and sodium bicarbonate added to clean water.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
ORS treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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