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Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 2003
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KEN_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Bureau of Statistics [Kenya], Ministry of Health [Kenya], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Source of diarrhea treatment: Private pharmacy (C_DIATRPRIVDRUG)

Data file: KEN2003-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1559
End: 1559
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
482. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else? RECORD ALL PLACES MENTIONED.

IF SOURCE IS HOSPITAL, HEALTH CENTRE OR CLINIC, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE. PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE AND CIRCLE THE APPROPRIATE CODE.

(NAME OF PLACE) __________

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVT. HOSPITAL A
GOVT. HEALTH CENTRE B
GOVT. DISPENSARY C
OTHER PUBLIC _____ D

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

MISSION HOSP /CLINIC F
PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC H
PHARMACY/CHEMIST I
OTHER PVT. MEDICAL L

MOBILE CLINIC M
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER N
OTHER SOURCE

SHOP/KIOSK O
TRAD. PRACTITIONER P
RELATIVE/FRIEND Q
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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 children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIATRPRIVDRUG (H12K) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child received treatment at a private pharmacy, drug store, or dispensary.

Some samples in the "DIATR" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

For example, a given sample might include multiple categories for different types of private drug sources that could be combined to create a more comprehensive response category. See Comparability for more information on the specific categories combined in DIATPRIVDRUG.

Users should be careful to distinguish this variable from DIATRPUBDRUG and DIATROTHDRUG, which refer to public drug sources and informal drug sources, respectively.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Place for diarrhea treatment, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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