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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1992
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NER_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique et des Comptes Nationaux, Direction Générale du Plan, Ministère des Finances et du Plan [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given home remedy or herbal medicine for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVHERB)

Data file: NER1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1024
End: 1024
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
471) What was given or made to treat the diarrhea?

Anything else?

RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

FLUID FROM ORS PACKET A
RECOMMENDED HOME FLUID B
ANTIBIOTIC PILL OR SYRUP C
OTHER PILL OR SYRUP D
INJECTION E
(I.V.) INTRAVENOUS F
HOME REMEDY/HERBAL MEDICINE G
GUITTI/BAOURI H
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ I
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVHERB (H15D) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given home remedies or herbal medicines to treat this illness.

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