Home / Central Data Catalog / GIN_1999_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [W]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999
Get Microdata
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
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
54512

Symptom of malaria: Other (W_MLSYMOTH)

Data file: GIN1999-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 909
End: 909
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1102. What are the symptoms of malaria?
RECORD ALL RESPONSES MENTIONED.

FEVER A
LOW TEMPERATURE B
HEADACHE C
JOINT PAIN D
VOMITING E
DIARRHEA F
CHILLS (TREMBLING) G
COUGH AND SORE THROAT H
WEAKNESS I
LOSS OF APPETITE J
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
DOESN'T KNOW Z
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
MLSYMOTH indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported some other symptom of malaria. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a given sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Malaria symptoms Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog