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Demographic and Health Survey 1988-1989 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1988 - 1989
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UGA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Department of Geography (Makerere University), Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (Makerere University) [Uganda] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given recommended home solution with salt and sugar for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVSOLUT)

Data file: UGA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 692
End: 693
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
424G) What fluids did you give?

HOME SOLUTION OF SALT, SUGAR, WATER 1
ORS PACKET SOLUTION 2 (GO TO 424I)
FRUIT JUICE 3 (GO TO 424M)
TEA OR SOUP 4 (GO TO 424M)
SYRUPS 5 (GO TO 424M)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___________ 6 (GO TO 424M)
Categories
Value Category
10 Yes
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
00 No
11 Yes, spontaneous
12 Yes, probed
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, DIAGIVSOLUT (H14) indicates whether the child was given a recommended homemade solution to treat this illness.

concept

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