Home / Central Data Catalog / IND_2015_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [C]
central

[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
Get Microdata
Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
80370

Blood taken from child's finger or heel for testing (C_FEVBLOODTEST)

Data file: IND2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1821
End: 1821
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
530. At any time during illness, did (NAME) have blood taken from (his/her) finger or heel for testing?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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 surviving children under age 5 who had a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVBLOODTEST (H47) indicates whether blood was taken from the child's finger or heel for testing. Such testing might have been done to determine whether malaria-causing parasites were in the blood.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog