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Demographic and Health Survey 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1990
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NGA_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Federal Office of Statistics [Nigeria] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro International Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given antibiotics for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVANTIB)

Data file: NGA1990-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 909
End: 909
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
478. What was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
(CIRCLE EACH MENTIONED)

INJECTION 1
ANTIBIOTIC (PILL OR SYRUP) 1
OTHER PILL OR SYRUP 1
(I.V.) INTRAVENOUS 1
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP 1
HOME REMEDY/ HERBAL MEDICINE 1
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____________ 1
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, DIAGIVANTIB (H15A) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given antibiotics to treat this illness.

concept

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