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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2008
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Reference ID
EGY_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health [Egypt], E-Zanaty and Associates, and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Had antibiotics at home for child's fever/cough (C_FEVANTIBHOME)

Data file: EGY2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1340
End: 1340
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
658. Did you already have the antibiotic at home when (NAME) became ill?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, at home
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 who took antibiotics for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVANTIBHOME (ML24C) indicates whether their home already had the antibiotics on hand when the child became ill.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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