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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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Had other antimalarial at home for child's fever/cough (C_FEVOTHMALHOME)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1821
End: 1821
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
549. Did you already have (NAME OF DRUG FROM 547) at home when the child became ill?
ASK SEPARATELY FOR EACH OF THE DRUGS 'A' THROUGH 'G' THAT THE CHILD IS RECORDED AS HAVING TAKEN IN 547. IF YES FOR ANY DRUG, CIRCLE CODE FOR THAT DRUG. IF NO FOR ALL DRUGS, CIRCLE 'Y'.

ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS

SP/FANSIDAR/AMALAR/MALOXINE A
CHLOROQUINE B
AMODIAQUINE C
QUININE D
ARTEMISININ COMBINATION THERAPY (ACT) E
OTHER ANTIMALARIAL F

ANTIBIOTIC PILL/SYRUP G
NO DRUG AT HOME Y
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 young children who took some other antimalarial drug for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVOTHMALHOME (ML23C) indicates whether their home already had that other antimalarial drug on hand when the child became ill. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

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