Demographic and Health Survey 1989

Kenya, 1988 - 1989

Reference ID

KEN_1988_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Council for Population and Development [Kenya] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Child given home remedy or herbal medicine for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVHERB)

Data file: KEN1989-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVHERB (H15D) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given home remedies or herbal medicines to treat this illness.

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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