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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 taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: NGA1990-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 875
End: 875
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
454. When you perceived that (NAME) was ill, who began treatment?

VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER 01
HEALTH CLINIC/POST 02
HEALTH CENTER 03
HOSPITAL 04
PRIVATE DOCTOR 05
TRADITIONAL/SPIRITUAL HEALER 06
VILLAGE CHEMIST AT PATENT MEDICINE SHOP 07
PHARMACY 08
MYSELF/RELATIVES 09
OTHER (SPECIFY) _______ 10
Categories
Value Category
0 Did not receive any treatment
1 Received treatment
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 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.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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