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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2000
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Reference ID
NAM_2000_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) [Namibia] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: NAM2000-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1208
End: 1208
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
468) What was given to treat the diarrhoea?
Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PILL OR SYRUP A
INJECTION B
(I.V.) INTRAVENOUS C
HOME REMEDIES/HERBAL MEDICINES D
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X
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 young children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

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