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Demographic and Health Survey 2000-2001 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2000 - 2001
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UGA_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics [Uganda] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Sought STI advice from: Self-medication (closed-ended) (W_STIADSELFMEDYN)

Data file: UGA2001-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 922
End: 922
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
820g The last time you had (infection from 820b/820c/820d), did you do any of the following? Did you...

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

Yes 1
No 2

Seek advice or medicine from a traditional healer?

Yes 1
No 2

Seek advice or buy medicine in a drug shop or pharmacy?

Yes 1
No 2

Ask for advice from friends or relatives?

Yes 1
No 2

Do self medication?

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, STIADSELFMEDYN indicates whether they did "self-medication" for this problem.

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