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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tunisia, 1988
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TUN_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Office National de la Famille et de la Population et 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: TUN1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 771
End: 772
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
542) Which medication did he/she take?
An injection, pills, syrup, oralyte (##translator note: translation not found, but term is relate to something taken orally), or else?

INJECTION 1
PILLS 1
SYRUP 1
ORALYTE 1 [##TRANSLATOR NOTE: TRANSLATION NOT FOUND, BUT TERM RELATED TO THE MOUTH, SOME KIND OF ORALLY ADMINISTERED MEDICINE]
OTHERS 1
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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.

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