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Population and Family Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Jordan, 1997
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JOR_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics (DOS) [Jordan] and Macro International Inc. (MI)., Minnesota Population Center
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Child taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: JOR1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1145
End: 1145
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
553. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else? RECORD ALL MENTIONED?

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVT. HOSPITAL A
ROYAL MEDICAL SERVICES ARMED FORCES B
GOVT. HEALTH CENTER C
GOVT. HEALTH POST D
MOBILE CLINIC E
COMM. HEALTH WORKER F
OTHER PUBLIC__________G

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC H
PHARMACY I
PRIVATE DOCTOR J
MOBILE CLINIC K
COMM. HEALTH WORKER L
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL________M

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP N
TRAD. PRACTITIONER O

OTHER____________ X
Categories
Value Category
0 Did not receive any treatment
1 Received treatment
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 young children with a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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