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Demographic and Health Survey 1989-1990 - IPUMS Subset

Sudan, 1989 - 1990
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SDN_1989_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic and National Planning, the Republic of the Sudan, and the Institute for Resource Development/Macro International, Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: SDN1989-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 679
End: 679
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
443 What was given for diarrhea, if anything, (other than the mixture you mentioned)?

NO TREATMENT 1
ANTIBIOTIC PILL 1
ANTIBIOTIC SYRUP 1
OTHER PILL OR OTHER SYRUP 1
INJECTION 1
(I.V.) INTRAVENOUS 1
MORE REMEDIES/HERBAL MEDICINES 1
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ 1
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 young children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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