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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999
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GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan et de la Coopération [Guinea] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Signs cough needs treatment: Unable to drink (C_COUTRNOTDRINK)

Data file: GIN1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1010
End: 1010
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
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, unable to drink
8 Missing
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
COUTRNOTDRINK indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that being unable to drink/nurse indicated a child sick with a cough should be taken to a health facility or health worker for treatment.

concept

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