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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2006
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NER_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child fed the same, more, or less fluid with diarrhea (C_DIAFLUIDUPDN)

Data file: NER2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1683
End: 1684
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
476. Now I would like to know how much liquid was given to (NAME) during his/her diarrhea. Did you give him/her less or more to drink than usual?
If less, did you give him a lot or a little less than usual to drink?

A LOT LESS 1
A LITTLE LESS 2
ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT 3
MORE 4
NOTHING TO DRINK 5
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Same
20 Increase
30 Decrease
31 Somewhat less
32 Much less
33 Nothing to drink
97 Don't know
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
For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFLUIDUPDN (H38) reports whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of fluid as usual during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFLUIDUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

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