Demographic and Health Survey 2006-2007 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2006 - 2007

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Reference ID

NAM_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) [Namibia] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Child has fever/cough now (C_SICKNOW)

Data file: NAM2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1527

End: 1528

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

545. Is (NAME) still sick with a (fever/ cough)?

FEVER ONLY 1
COUGH ONLY 2
BOTH FEVER AND COUGH 3
NO, NEITHER 4
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Yes, fever only
12	Yes, cough only
13	Yes, either fever or cough
14	Yes, both fever and cough
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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 or cough in the past 2 weeks, SICKNOW (ML11) indicates whether the child currently has the fever or cough.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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