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Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991
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PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child's cause of death from health professional: Other (C_KIDCODHPOTH)

Data file: PAK1991-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1104
End: 1104
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
459. What did they say was the cause of death?

FEVER 1
DIARRHEA 1
COUGH 1
MEASLES 1
VOMITING 1
CONVULSIONS 1
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ (GO TO 461)
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
KIDCODHPOTH indicates whether a health professional told the family that the child's death was caused by some "other" illness. The meaning of other must be interpreted relative to the specific response categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cause of death Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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