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Demographic and Health Survey 2003-2004 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2003 - 2004
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MDG_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et du Budget [Madagascar] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sought STI advice from: Traditional healer (closed-ended) (C_STIADPRIVHLYN)

Data file: MDG2003-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 945
End: 945
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
819H. The last time you had (INFECTION FROM 819C/819D/819E), did you do any of the following things? Did you...

Seek advice from a health care worker in a hospital or clinic?

YES 1
NO 2

Seek advice or treatment from a traditional healer?

YES 1
NO 2

Seek advice or buy medication from a pharmacy or store?

YES 1
NO 2

Seek advice from family or friends?

YES 1
NO 2
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 women who had symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection in the past 12 months, STIADPRIVHLYN indicates whether, in response to a closed-ended question, they reported seeking advice or treatment from a traditional healer for this problem.

IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Comparability tab and should be careful to distinguish this variable from STIADPRIVHL, which collects similar information using an open-ended question.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Source for STI advice, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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