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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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Child taking iron pills, sprinkles, or syrup, past 7 days (C_IRONSUPKID)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1716
End: 1716
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
516. In the last seven days, did (NAME) take iron pills, sprinkles with iron, or iron syrup (like this/any of these)?
SHOW COMMON TYPES OF PILLS/SPRINKLES/ SYRUPS.

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
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
IRONSUPKID (H42) indicates whether the child took iron pills, sprinkles or syrup in the past 7 days.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child feeding, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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