Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999

Reference ID

GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan et de la Coopération [Guinea] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Signs cough needs treatment: Other (B_COUTROTHER)

Data file: GIN1999-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1012

End: 1012

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

468. When a child is sick with a cough, what signs of illness would tell you that he or she should be taken to a health facility or health worker? Any other symptom?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

RAPID BREATHING A
DIFFICULTY BREATHING B
NOISY BREATHING C
FEVER D
UNABLE TO DRINK E
NOT EATING/NOT DRINKING WELL F
GETS SICKER/VERY SICK G
NOT GETTING BETTER H
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
DOESN'T KNOW Z

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes, other
8	Missing

Description

Definition

COUTROTHER indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, some "other" indication that a child sick with a cough should be taken to a health facility or health worker for treatment. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific responses included for a given survey.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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