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Demographic and Health Survey 1993 - IPUMS Subset

Burkina Faso, 1993
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BFA_1993_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: BFA1993-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1078
End: 1078
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
471. What was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

LIQUID FROM ORS PACKETS A
SALT/SUGAR WATER B
ERSEFLURIL/TYPHOMICINE/OTHER ANTIBIOTIC C
GANIDAN/IMMODIUM/CHARCOAL/OTHER ANTI-DIURRHETIC D
INJECTION E
DRIP/SERUM F
MEDICINAL PLANTS/TRADITIONAL REMEDY (SPECIFY) _____ G
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ H
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.

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