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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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Symptoms of TB: Fever (W_TBSYMPFEVER)

Data file: NGA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1235
End: 1235
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1002A. What are the signs or symptoms that would lead you to think a person has tuberculosis or TB? Any others?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

COUGHING A
COUGHING WITH SPUTUM B
COUGHING SEVERAL WEEKS C
FEVER D
BLOOD IN SPUTUM E
LOSS OF APPETITE F
NIGHTSWEATING G
PAIN IN CHEST H
TIREDNESS/FATIGUE I
WEIGHT LOSS J
PALENESS K
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___________ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
TBSYMPFEVER indicates whether the woman reported, in response to an open-ended question, that fever was a symptom of tuberculosis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
TB symptoms Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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