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Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-16

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
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TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF, Minnesota Population Center
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Child's fever/cough treated by: Other (C_FEVGIVOTH)

Data file: TZA2015-C

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No
10 Yes, child given other
11 Given other medicine for fever
12 Given other medicine for cough
13 Given other medicine for fever or cough
14 Given other medicine for fever and cough
15 Given other medicine for fever or convulsions
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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 a fever or cough in the past 2 to 4 weeks, FEVGIVOTH (ML13X) indicates whether the child was given some other medicine. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in the sample.

A few samples ask separately about drugs taken for fever and drugs taken for cough. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in composite coding. A first digit of 1 indicates the child received the drug, and the second digit indicates the child's illness. A code of "11" indicates the child was given the drug for a fever, a code of "12" indicates the child was given the drug for a cough, a code of "13" indicates the child was given the drug for a fever or a cough, a code of "14" indicates the child was given the drug for both a fever and a cough, and a code of "15" indicates the child was given the drug for a fever or convulsions. See Comparability for more information.

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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