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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child given zinc for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVZINC)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1876
End: 1877
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
530. What (else) was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOTILITY B
ZINC C
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY, OR ZINC) D
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP E

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC F
NON-ANTIBIOTIC G
UNKNOWN INJECTION H

(IV) INTRAVENOUS I
HOME REMEDY/ HERBAL MEDICINE J
OTHER (SPECIFY) __________ X
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, spontaneous
12 Yes, probed
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, DIAGIVZINC (H15E) indicates whether the child was given zinc to treat this illness.

The World Health Organization reports here [URL omitted from DDI.] that "Zinc supplementation has been found to reduce the duration and severity of diarrheal episodes and the likelihood of subsequent infections for 2-3 months."

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