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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 1987
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MAR_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministère de la Santé Publique, Service des Etudes et de L'Information Sanitaire [Morocco], et Insitute for Resource Development/Westinghouse., Minnesota Population Center
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Child's illness before death: Swelling of limbs or body (C_ILLPREDSWELL)

Data file: MAR1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 735
End: 735
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
530) At the time he/she became sick with the illness that lead to his/her death, did he/she have any of the following symptoms:

SWELLING OF EXTREMITIES AND/OR BODY 1
EXTREME THINNESS 1
HIGH FEVER 1
DIARRHEA 1
VOMITING 1
INABILITY TO OPEN MOUTH TO EAT 1
FREQUENT AND INTENSE COUGH 1
RESPIRATORY DISTRESS 1
JAUNDICE 1
OUTBURSTS 1
CONVULSIONS (EYE REVULSION AND LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS) 1
STIFF BODY 1
MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS 1
ACCIDENT 1
INTOXICATION OR POISONING 1
OTHER (SPECIFY): ____ 1
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
7 Don't know
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 have died, ILLPREDSWELL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported the child suffered from swelling of the limbs or body before death.

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