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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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Child given gruel for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVGRUEL)

Data file: GIN1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1326
End: 1326
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
459. When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she given any of the following to drink:

A fluid prepared from a special packet called ORS? SHOW ORS PACKET.
Homemade sugar-salt-water solution?
A bottle?
Soup?
Milk or infant formula?
Yogurt-based drink?
Water?
Any other liquids?

ORS PACKET

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

HOMEMADE SUGAR-SALT-WATER SOLUTION

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

A BOTTLE

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

SOUP

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

MILK OR INFANT FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

YOGURT-BASED DRINK

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

ANY OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'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 diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVGRUEL indicates whether the child was given gruel or similar foods, in response to a yes/no question about specific liquids and watery food given during the illness.

concept

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